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Reading first essay of Three Guineas .
I don’t really know when I’ll have read all this volume.

Read GERALDINE AND JANE. This essay was either a book review of a biography of a Geraldine Jewsbury written by a Mrs Ireland and/or a review of Mrs Thomas Carlyle’s Letters/Correspondence. Apparently the two women were an highly inappropriate item. Whatever. But the magnificent self-confidence of VW herself! AS IF she had spent 5 entire years of her life studying nothing but the intertwined lives of this couple!

Read VW criticism re WILLIAM HAZLITT, born in 1778, who somehow managed to become one of the greatest prose writers of the English language. He like to write compare and contrast Chaucer, Spenser , Shakespeare and Milton . From Hazlitt on English Literature : see my comment

Read VW’s criticism of THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE’S ARCADIA written centuries ago by Sir Philip Sidney. His work is a long meandering prose poem which VW has obviously read but not I. A wondrous quote from his escapist work goes like this as per VW, “Sometimes for a moment in looking at Nature one may fit the word to the sight;…. or observe the water-spaniel hunting the duck “with a snuffling grace”.

Just read The Countrss Pembites! Arcadia .

Just read THE STRANGE ELIZABETHANS but mostly about a doctor guy called Harvey. Honestly, these essays of VW’s are about as useful as a post on Twitter or Instagram .