Virginia Woolf Woolf with well needed relief from the pace of London life and was where she found a happiness that she expressed in her diary of May 5, 1919 "Oh, but how happy we've been at Asheham! It was a most melodious time. Everything went so freely; - but I can't analyse all the sources of my joy". "Asham" was also the inspiration for "A Haunted House" (1921-1944), and was painted by members of the Bloomsbury Group, including Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry. It was during these times at "Asham" that Ka Cox (seen here) started to devote herself to Virginia
From the Diary of Virginia Woolf From the Diary of Virginia Woolf From the Diary of Virginia Woolf is an eight-part song cycle written by Dominick Argento in 1974 for the English mezzo-soprano Janet Baker. The work won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975. The text of the songs comes from "A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf", which was published in 1954. (The five-volume diaries edited by Anne Olivier Bell were not published until 1979.) The choice of a prose, rather than poetic, source for a text is a common theme for Argento, who did the same thing in his