![]() ![]() Wordsworth Editions will then be free to produce copies of To the Lighthouse and will sell them for as little as £1. ![]() VIRGINIA: Leonard, my agent tells me that under British law, copyright in my new work will expire 50 years after my tragic suicide in 1941. We will not only be able to afford the groceries, but enrich the children and grandchildren of our nephew. With the Great Depression about to start, the royalties will come in handy. It will be a masterpiece of 20th-century fiction. VIRGINIA: Darling, I am thinking of writing a novel called To the Lighthouse, based on experiences in my family childhood, and set on the Isle of Skye. The year is 1927, and Virginia Stephen is talking to her husband, Leonard Woolf, over the cornflakes in their elegant Bloomsbury home. To mark the occasion I reprise a lightly edited and amplified version of a column which first appeared in the Financial Times in 2002. ![]() As fireworks marked the beginning of 2023, Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse was finally released from US copyright. ![]()
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