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Moments of Being

Moments of Being

Moments of Being is a collection of posthumously-published autobiographical essays by Virginia Woolf. The collection was first found in the papers of her husband, used by Quentin Bell in his biography of Virginia Woolf, published in 1972. In 1976, the essays were edited for publication by Jeanne Schulkind. The second edition was published in 1985. The original texts are now housed at Sussex University and in the British Library in London.


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“That great Cathedral space which was childhood.”

"A Sketch of the Past"
Moments of Being (1939-1940)

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