Making waves

On the morning of March 28, 1941 at about 11.30am, 59-year-old novelist Virginia Woolf put on her thick fur coat, picked up the faux bamboo walking stick illustrated above and left her farmhouse in Rodmell, Sussex.

She was heading for the river Ouse, a short walk across the water meadows. Three weeks later, on Apr…

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