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“To
Vanessa Bell
But, looking for a phrase,
I found none to stand,
Beside your name.”

That's quite something, coming from Virginia, who seems to have had a phrase to describe anything and everything in the most epic way. Dedications are always so interesting, I love lingering on them for some time.
Oct 10, 2020 09:31AM
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Settare is 60% done
So many dramatic proposal failures. Never thought I'd recall famous TV shows when reading a Woolf novel but this one has strong Downton Abbey vibes. :)))))))
Oct 17, 2020 09:22AM
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Settare
Settare is 35% done
*1920*
Woolf's critics and friends: why don't you write a normal novel, a love story perhaps, like Austen and any other decent female author?

Woolf: *writes about a woman who earns her own living, works for the Suffrage Office, and, guess what, her fate at the end of the book is NOT to get married and settle down.*

Typical Virginia. Love it.
Oct 12, 2020 11:55AM
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“Surely she could learn Persian,’ broke in a thin, elderly gentleman. ‘Is there no man of letters in Manchester with whom she could read Persian?”
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“There is the University,’ said the thin gentleman who had previously insisted upon the existence of people knowing Persian.”

What IS it with Woolf and Persian? In all her books people mention some old scholar who knows Persian. Was it a 'thing' among literary elites?
Oct 10, 2020 09:43AM
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