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Virginia Woolf’s Idea of Privacy | The New Yorker

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These days, when we use the word “privacy,” it usually has a political meaning. We’re concerned with other people and how they might affect us. We …

Save this story Save this story These days, when we use the word “privacy,” it usually has a political meaning. We’re concerned with other people and how they might affect us. We think about how they could use information about us for their own ends, or interfere with decisions that are rightfully ours. We’re mindful of the lines that divide public life from private life. We have what you might call a citizen’s sense of privacy. That’s an important way to think about privacy, obviously. But there are other ways. One of them is expressed very beautifully in “Mrs. Dalloway,” in a famous scene ea

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