The Nanny's Curtain of Langton

The publishing house "Subscription Editions" presents the magical fairy tale by Virginia Woolf "The Nanny's Curtain of Langton". Artist Ivan Sergeev. Translation from English by Shasha Martynova. Nanny Langton grew tired of sewing the curtain and fell asleep. The animals adorning the fabric began to stir and hop, important nobles marched along the folds, and the old queen passed by in her palanquin. Life flows abundantly across the expanse of the blue curtain, while a frightening giantess with a golden thimble sleeps sweetly...
In September 1924, Ann Stephen, the daughter of Adrian, Virginia's brother, visited Virginia and Leonard Woolf's home in Rodmell. The writer was just finishing her fourth novel "Mrs. Dalloway," but to entertain her niece, she momentarily set aside her work and composed a short magical fairy tale about the sewing nanny, the vibrant land of her dreams, and the enterprising inhabitants of that land. Forty years later, a sheet of paper on which Woolf wrote the story was discovered in the manuscript of "Mrs. Dalloway" in the British Museum archives.