A lost book by Virginia Woolf will be published next month after its manuscript was discovered in a stately home in England.

The Life of Violet is a collection of three comic stories about a giantess.

It will be published on October 7, providing a new insight into one of the 20th century’s most influential feminist writers.

Woolf, known for novels and feminist essays, took her own life in 1941. Her works became inspirational to early modern feminist thinkers because of their focus on the stifling social customs of upper-class England.

The discovery of a new Woolf book which challenges perceptions of her as “gloomy, suicidal and dark” will excite literary scholars.

The Life of Violet was completed eight years before the publication of Woolf’s earliest known novel, The Voyage Out .

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