The Literature Network - ECLIPSE OF THE SUN; `We had seen the world dead' On 29 June 1927, three million people went to the north of England to see 25 seconds of total eclipse. Virginia Woolf described the event in her diary

ECLIPSE OF THE SUN; `We had seen the world dead' On 29 June 1927, three million people went to the north of England to see 25 seconds of total eclipse. Virginia Woolf described the event in her diary

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 19990711
Author:Virginia Woolf

Now I must sketch out the Eclipse.

About 10 on Tuesday night several very long trains, accurately filled (ours with civil servants) left King's Cross. In our carriage was Vita {Sackville-West} and Harold {Nicolson}, Quentin {Bell}, L {Leonard Woolf} and I. Before it got dark we kept looking at the sky: soft fleecy; but there was one star, over Alexandra Park. The Nicolsons got sleepy: Harold curled up with his head on Vita's knee. She looked like Sappho by Leighton, asleep; so we plunged through the midlands; made a very long stay at York. Then at 3 we got our sandwiches. Then we had another ...

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