Octavia Wilberforce

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...

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...

Persuaded by physician Octavia Wilberforce , ER converted Backsettown Farm, her property in Sussex, into a convalescent home for overworked women.

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.

Leonard Woolf sorted through ER 's papers after her death. After Octavia Wilberforce died, the papers went to Fales Library at New York University .ER 's stage costumes are in the...

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...