Was Virginia Woolf Anorexic?

Woolf's niece speculates on the writer's health in UK tabloid

Vanessa Bell, Portrait of Virginia Woolf

From Alison Flood (The Guardian): ‘Virginia Woolf's great niece has suggested that her great aunt suffered from anorexia nervosa. Emma Woolf, who has written a memoir of her own recovery from the eating disorder, says she experienced a "painful moment of recognition" when she saw a photograph of Virginia Woolf in 1932, standing between TS Eliot and his wife Vivienne. "The image of Virginia is of someone suffering from anorexia," she wrote in tÍhe Mail on Sunday.’ [Read More]

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