Between the Acts

Image of dust jacket for Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf, featuring a black and white Illustration by Vanessa Bell

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Excepting the illustration the remaining jacket (and publication) is over 70 years old and is now out of copyright in the UK. Thanks are given to the Society of Illustrators literary estate holders of Virginia and Leonard Woolf.

This book cover is held at The University of Reading Special Collections as part of the Finzi, Gerald & Joy – Papers and Library

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Between the Acts

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Woolf died while completing this, her final novel; the manuscript was finished, though she had not yet revised it. It was published shortly after her death. It describes the process of putting on a play in a small English town just before the Second World War; much of it is written in verse.