A book detailing the literary confessions of novelists Virginia Woolf and Margaret Kennedy is to be sold at auction.
Really and Truly: A Book of Literary Confessions contains pages of printed questions with 10 sets of handwritten answers, dated between 1923 and 1927.
Among the authors replying to the questions were Rose Macaulay, Rebecca West, Hilaire Belloc, Stella Benson, Woolf and Kennedy.
There are 39 questions, ranging from “who is the greatest genius who ever lived?” to who respondents thought were the best and worst novelists/poets/playwrights/essayists, both dead and living.
Virginia Woolf answered all 39 questions in her distinctive purple ink (Dominic Winter Auctioneers/PA)
A book detailing the literary confessions of novelists Virginia Woolf and Margaret Kennedy is to be sold at auction.
Really and Truly: A Book of Literary Confessions contains pages of printed questions with 10 sets of handwritten answers, dated between 1923 and 1927.
Among the authors replying to the questions were Rose Macaulay, Rebecca West, Hilaire Belloc, Stella Benson, Woolf and Kennedy.
There are 39 questions, ranging from “who is the greatest genius who ever lived?” to who respondents thought were the best and worst novelists/poets/playwrights/essayists, both dead and living.
Virginia Woolf answered all 39 questions in her distinctive purple ink (Dominic Winter Auctioneers/PA)
Pi love you! Hand-written maths lessons that Dambusters bouncing bomb inventor Barnes Wallis used to woo his 17-year-old wife who was HALF his age are set to sell for £2,000
The celebrated World War Two hero fell in love with his much younger cousin Molly Bloxham in the 1920s
Her father felt it was inappropriate for her senior suitor, almost 20 years older, to be writing to the teenager
But he did allow her to correspond provided he taught her mathematics, which she was studying at college
Some 250 letters covering calculus, trigonometry and electrostatic induction were written over 16 months
Now the archive of Wallis increasingly romantic notes is set to go under the hammer at auction tomorrow