"Shortly before the Second World War, Virginia Woolf had urged Katherine Furse to 'let the cat out of the bag'."
--Pemble, John (ed.), John Addington Symonds: Culture and the Demon Desire (Macmillan Press Ltd, 2000),x.
Long after his death, Symonds' daughters, Katherine Furse and Margaret Vaughan, publicly projected an image of their father as a monkish, troubled asexual or heterosexual. But others, like Virginia Woolf, saw through this fantasy and wanted the daughters to come out, so to speak, with the truth.