It’s Easter. And I read Virginia Woolf. So this morning a question occurred to me, “What did Virginia Woolf think about Easter?” I turned to Jane de Gay to find out.

Revd Professor Jane de Gay is professor of English literature at Leeds Trinity University and an Anglican priest serving a predominantly Caribbean congregation at St. Martin’s Potternewton, Leeds.

The Woolf scholar and author of the book, Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture (Edinburgh UP, June 2018), wrote a series of posts about Woolf and Holy Week in 2019, the year after her book came out.

Her final one, titled “Easter Sunday,” included this quote from Woolf on Easter Sunday in 1937:

Again I take my tiny little flutter, with the accursed Xtian bells ringing – however, dulled as they are with 500 years or more at Rodmell I cant seriously dislike them. (Diary 5, 72)

You can read Jane’s entire post on the Edinburgh University Press blog.

The spire of St. Peter’s Church, located behind the garden at the Woolfs’ Monk’s House in Rodmell, peaks above the greenery.