1. Woolf once
said that her death would be the “one experience I shall never describe.”
2. When Woolf
taught at Morley College, she made her students write essays about themselves.
3. Woolf was a
difficult shopper, often arguing with shopkeepers over what products they had
for sale and what products she imagined they should have for sale.
4. After
getting married, Woolf thought she should learn some domestic skills, so she
enrolled in a school of cookery. Shortly after, she accidentally baked her
wedding ring in a pudding.
5. Before
Woolf was even 7 years old, her mother, Julia, was teaching her Latin, French,
and History.
6. Woolf and
five of her male friends once received a 40-minute tour of the British
battleship H.M.S. Dreadnought with the ship’s commander after painting their
faces black, dressing in robes, and presenting themselves as the Prince of
Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) and his entourage.
7. Woolf first
tried to kill herself at the age of 22 by jumping out of a window. The window
she jumped from, however, was not high enough to cause serious harm.
8. When Woolf
asked T.S. Eliot at a particular dinner party to define his belief in God,
Eliot did not answer.
9. When
Virginia and Leonard Woolf, who together ran the Hogarth Press, received the
manuscript of the first chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses, they turned it down
for publication because it was impossible to print the entire book on their
handpress.
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