Editing Virginia Woolf (section)

==== Sexual abuse ====
In the 1939 essay "A Sketch of the Past", Woolf first disclosed that she had experienced sexual abuse by Gerald Duckworth during childhood.<ref>Virginia Woolf, "A Sketch of the Past", in ''Moments of Being'' (London: Hogarth Press, 1985), p. 69.</ref><ref>Roger Poole, ''The Unknown Virginia Woolf'' (Cambridge University Press, 1978), pp. 27–34.</ref> There is speculation that this contributed to her mental health issues later in life.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|pp=123-124}} There are also suggestions of sexual impropriety from George Duckworth during the period that he was caring for the Stephen sisters when they were teenagers.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|pp=151-156}}