A researcher — who was looking for something else — stumbled onto two poems by Virginia Woolf. The silly, punny, quickly drafted poems were written for her niece and nephew sometime after March 1927.

A University of Liverpool researcher has discovered two previously unknown poems by literary icon Virginia Woolf. Dr Sophie Oliver, from the University of Liverpool’s Department of English, uncovered the two poems in the back of a file of letters Woolf wrote to her niece, held in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.