From: Andrew Epstein (aiepstein@earthlink.net)
Date: 02/12/03-08:44:07 AM Z
Facinating; the photo takes on so much more weight of history than I
was aware. Julia (Mrs. Herbert's first name) would meet Leslie
Stephen, a widow himself, nearly ten years after the photo was taken.
And Virginia is born 15 years after.
--Andrew
>Mrs Herbert Duckworth was Virginia Woolf's mother. Mrs Duckworth
>married Virginia Woolf's father after her husband died. She brought
>two of her children from her previous marriage to the household
>when she married Mr Woolf. One of these boys was the older half
>brother who molested Virginia and her sister Vanessa when they were
>small.
>
>Another interesting thing to know about Mrs Herbert Duckworth is
>that she is the person that the character Mrs Ramsey in To The
>Lighthouse was modelled after.
>
>--shannon
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