The British novelist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) wrote many significant novels, including Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, and the essay “A Room of One’s Own.” This entry is excerpted from A Writer’s Diary, entries culled from her personal journals after her death by her husband, the writer and editor Leonard Woolf.
To notice in this excerpt the details, times, temperatures, and characters that make up this “specimen day.”
Virginia Woolf-August 20 1932
