Sally Stockhold

Virginia Woolf, “I feel certain that I am going mad again....and I shan’t recover this time”

From “myselfportraits, ode to icons” Series
Hand-colored archival pigment print
Edition of 6 + 2 APs
Sally Stockhold © 2010

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) A prodigious author whose work encompasses many forms, Woolf is considered one of the premier literary modernist writers of the twentieth century. Her efforts transformed the art of the novel. For much of her life, Woolf suffered from various psychoses, especially severe depressions. In 1941, no longer able to work, she walked into the River Ouse near her Sussex country home and ended her life. She left behind a note to her beloved husband, Leonard, in which she wrote “I feel certain that I am going mad again… and I shan’t recover this time.” A strong advocate for women’s rights, Woolf wrote “A Room of One’s Own,” arguably her most accessible work.

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