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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
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.
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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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“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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“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?
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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
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.
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Oct 12, 2020 11:57AM
Ok to be fair, the book doesn't center around Mary and the Suffragists, and there is a fair amount of "omg I'm in love but he likes someone else" going on, BUT STILL
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I like this book. Possibly the most mainsteam Woolf?
Bloodorange wrote: "I like this book. Possibly the most mainsteam Woolf?"I'm liking it so far as well, but not as much her as her other, less mainstream books. But she's good at writing conventional stories as well, so no complaints.
