He was in her shadows, but
he enabled her to have a "room of her own."
A civil servant, a husband, a founder of the League of Nations, a fellow writer, a kindred spirit, an aide,
he nursed her through her bouts of darkness
while unveiling her eyes to the beauty of her gardens and orchards
and rescuing her from her sometimes devastating world of words.
He edited her work and corrected her misspellings and apostrophes,
he helped her stay alive and sustained her, as she sustained him.
An influential member of the Bloomsbury Group, where he along with Virginia Woolf, "lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles."
he was her haven, her earthly home.
About the Creator
Susan Lee
I graduated from Stanford University in 2002 with a BA in International Relations and a minor in Psychology and have a Masters in International Affairs from Georgetown University.
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