The second part of this selection from Virginia Woolf's extensive correspondence takes us into the years of her literary successes. The novel Orlando, a love letter to her friend Vita Sackville-West, is published and celebrated by both the public and the press. She is already working on her major essay on literary and political feminism, A Room of One's Own. This text captures the admiration of composer and women's rights activist Ethel Smyth, with whom a complex friendship and intense correspondence develops. Virginia Woolf reveals much about her life, her writing, and her mental instability to her older friend: "As an experience, madness is magnificent, I can assure you, and nothing to be looked down upon; and in its lava, I still find most of the things I write about." Judgments on the works of Kol.