The Art of Remembering: Five captivating and moving sketches from a difficult life. In addition to her diaries and letters, Virginia Woolf left behind some memoirs that were not intended for the public. She wrote the first of these texts at the age of 26, long before she emerged as a writer; she worked on the last one just a few months before her death. With almost analytical precision, she captures the magic, but also the horrors and abysses of her childhood. She recounts her gradual liberation from the confines of her Victorian, prudish parental home and the beginnings of the legendary Bloomsbury Group. Not without wit and irony, she describes this unconventional circle of artists and writers that profoundly influenced her thinking and writing.