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Virginia Woolf
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More than anything, I began to hate women writers. Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Browning, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf. Bronte, Bronte, and Bronte. I began to resent Emily, Anne, and Charlotte—my old friends—with a terrifying passion. They were not only talented; they were brave, a trait I admired more than anything but couldn't seem to possess. The world that raised these women hadn't allowed them to write, yet they had spun fiery novels in spite of all the odds. Meanwhi
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― The Madwoman Upstairs
― The Madwoman Upstairs
“My books are friends that never fail me."
(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March…more
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