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
Virginia Woolf criticism. Virginia Woolf was born into an agnostic family, and in a letter to Ethel Smyth, Woolf gives a scathing denunciation of Christianity, seeing it as self-righteous "egotism" and stating "my Jew has more religion in one toenail—more human love, in one hair." Woolf stated in her private letters that she thought of herself as an atheist. Hermione Lee cites a number of extracts from Woolf's writings that many, including herself, would consider offensive, and these criticisms can be traced back as far as those of Wyndham Lewis and Q.D. Leavis in the 1920s and 1930s. Other authors provide more