WOOLF VIRGINIA: (1882-1941) English Novelist, a member of the Bloomsbury Group. A very fine A.L.S.,

WOOLF VIRGINIA: (1882-1941) English Novelist, a member of the Bloomsbury Group. A very fine A.L.S.,

‘No doubt you have praised it too highly’

WOOLF VIRGINIA: (1882-1941) English Novelist, a member of the Bloomsbury Group. A very fine A.L.S., Virginia Woolf, one page, 4to, Tavistock Square, London, 14th July 1930, to Mademoiselle Monteil. Woolf commences her letter by remarking that she remembers well meeting her correspondent last winter, continuing 'And now I must thank you for your very generous &, what is better, highly intelligent study of Mrs. Dalloway', further remarking 'I am very grateful to you for the care & skill which you have spent on my work - it seems to me one of the subtlest & most interesting studies of it that I have read. No doubt you have praised it too highly - of that an author cannot judge - but to be praised for the qualities one had wished to possess is a great pleasure & a rare one. I am particularly interested that a French critic should be so sympathetic; my faults are those, I should have said, that your race most abominates'. A letter of excellent content relating to one of the author's best-known works. Some very light, extremely minor traces of former mounting to the verso, VG Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway was published in 1925. The work, an example of stream of consciousness storytelling, details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high society lady in post-World War I England.