In 1907, Virginia Woolf is 25 years old and she commits murder.
She murders with her bare hands a woman known in England for her purity, her patience.
Virginia Woolf will not confess her crime until 1931 during a conference.
She recounts the scene.
She was at her desk.
She was trying to write.
This
“extremely charming” woman,
with fresh cheeks, circled around him.
"She was wasting my time and tormenting me,"
Virginia justifies herself.
So, at one point,
“I grabbed her by the throat”.
The name of his victim?
She does not have any.
But a few years ago, she explains to the women facing her, everyone praised her in England because she
“excelled in the difficult tasks of family life;
if there was chicken for the meal, she took the leg;
if there was a draft, she would sit there”.
This woman was a female type: the Home Angel.
Taken from the title of a Coventry Patmore poem, it referred to the Victorian ideal, Virginia Woolf tells her audience
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