In her late forties ER
developed a close relationship with a young physician, Octavia Wilberforce
. They moved into the same flat in 1917. While Elizabeth and Octavia were clearly devoted to one another, the...
Health
Virginia Woolf
In considering the various issues which prepared the ground for VW
's suicide, critics have noted her feelings of horror about the war, her writing, her past, and most particularly the prospect of another mental...
Occupation
Virginia Woolf
In her audience at Brighton were Elizabeth Robins
(feminist writer, actress, and Hogarth Press
author) and her companion Octavia Wilberforce
, a pioneering physician who was soon to become Woolf's doctor.
Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus, 1996.
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Occupation
Elizabeth Robins
Persuaded by physician Octavia Wilberforce
, ER
converted Backsettown Farm, her property in Sussex, into a convalescent home for overworked women.
John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge, 1995.
Throughout her writing VW
had the usual experience of planning literary projects which then did not come to fruition. Late in her life, combining fragments of anthropology, sociology, and psychology with literary history, she began...