Virginia Woolf commits suicide in 1941

 

Virginia Woolf, who committed suicide on 28 March 1941, aged 59, was an English writer. She was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals.

Woolf was one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. Her novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre.

While she is best known for her novels, especially Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the lighthouse (1927), Woolf also wrote pioneering essays on artistic theory, literary history, women’s writing, and the politics of power. A fine stylist, she experimented with several forms of biographical writing, composed painterly short fictions, and sent to her friends and family a lifetime of brilliant letters.

Maxim Gorky's Birth Anniversary

 

Maxim Gorky, born on 28 March 1868, was a Russian writer, nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most famous works are his short stories, written early in his career, including Chelkash (1894) and Twenty-Six Men and a Girl (1899).

Gorky also wrote plays, such as The Lower Depths (1902) and Children of the Sun (1905), and poems, for instance, The Song of the Stormy Petrel (1901).

He was associated with both Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, two fellow Russian writers, and was an active opponent of the Tsarist regime and proponent of the Bolshevik movement. Gorky was also closely associated with Lenin for a time.

Despite this early agreement between Gorky and the coming Soviet regime, he was exiled from the Soviet Union for a period and only returned in 1932 after being invited back personally by Joseph Stalin.

Maundy Thursday

 

Christians mark Maundy Thursday, which commemorates the Last Supper, every year on the Thursday before Easter. This year it is on March 28. It's also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, and the Thursday of Mysteries in various traditions.

Maundy refers to the foot-washing Jesus provided the apostles to the Last Supper. Christians around the world, especially Catholics, mark the day with a special mass and prayers.

The word "Maundy" itself comes from an Anglo-French word derived from the Latin "mandatum," which means "commandment."