“Elizabeth disliked the tragic, martyred image of Virginia Woolf which grew up after her death. When she read the first volume of William Plomer’s autobiography, At Home, in 1958, she told him that ’only you seem to bring back Virginia’s laughter – I get so bored and irked by the tragic fiction which has been manufactured about her since 1941.”

“Elizabeth disliked the tragic, martyred image of Virginia Woolf which grew up after her death. When she read the first volume of William Plomer’s autobiography, At Home, in 1958, she told him that ’only you seem to bring back Virginia’s laughter – I get so bored and irked by the tragic fiction which has been manufactured about her since 1941.”

— Victoria Glendinning