Virginia Woolf's literary confessions offered for sale

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image captionVirginia Woolf said she believed TS Eliot was 'the best living English critic of literature'
A book in which novelist Virginia Woolf shares her thoughts on the best and worst writers in the literary world has sold for £21,000 at auction.
Really and Truly: A Book of Literary Confessions, had been estimated to sell for between £4,000 - £6,000 at Dominic Winter Auctioneers in Gloucestershire.
It includes answers from several writers on who is the 'greatest genius' and 'worst English novelist'.
Auctioneer Chris Albury said he "didn't dream" the price would rise so high.

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