Virginia finishes Between the Acts, becomes ill in March with anxiety and depression. She leaves notes for Leonard and Vanessa, fills the pockets of her coat with stones  and drowns herself in the River Ouse on March 28. Her body is found three weeks later and cremated April 21. Her ashes are strewn at Monk’s House. In July, the novel she was working on at the time, Between the Acts was published posthumously.