Virginia Woolf escaped in the most tragic and definitive way by walking into the river and taking her own life.īut back to Barbara Newhall Follett: the daughter of critic and editor Wilson Follett and children’s writer Helen Thomas Follett, she was home-schooled and probably encouraged by her parents to write from an early age on. There are famous cases of authors who, in their own particular way, disappeared: Agatha Christie “staged” her own escape, only to be found by her husband in a health spa two weeks later.
The element of escape is what makes disappearances not only tragic but also exciting, even if we don’t want to admit it. I think all of us have at one time or another, even for the briefest of moments, considered running off and starting our lives over. I write “was,” but to this day nobody is certain of what happened to the author and if she perhaps fled to start a brand new life, is still alive and over a hundred years old.
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