Virginia lived her life under the shadow of
death and of the
headaches she often got, a sort of insanity, threatening to overcome her. She felt that her madness in the face of World War and of worries about the success of her new book was a burden on her husband
Leonard Woolf and on the 28th of March, 1941. It is interesting to note that
Mrs. Dalloway, written many years earlier, seemed to foreshadow her suicide. Her epitaph is a line out of her novel
The Waves: "
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!"
For a (much) more comprehensive analysis of Virginia Woolf's literature and death, go to Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! (oh please please please).