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Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf? A Case for the Sanity of Virginia Woolf, by Irene Coates; Soho Press, 2000, about $60.
HIGHBROWS are awfully idealistic about humanity in the mass, but sometimes they have rather poor attitudes towards individual humans, even when they're married to them. Louis Althusser strangled his wife. William Burroughs shot his wife. Norman Mailer stabbed one of his wives. Ted Hughes had two of his wives commit suicide, enough to make even Inspector Lestrade start to wonder.
Now Irene Coates thinks there's something fishy about Virginia Woolf's suicide, and she's written a book on it. First, she's tried to show that Mrs Woolf wasn't ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Woolf's Bane.(Who's Afraid of Leonard Woolf? A Case for the Sanity of...