The Essays of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1928Hogarth Press, 1986 - 653 pagina's Written while Virginia Woolf worked on Orlando, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One's Own, and including the complete text of The Common Reader, the essays in this volume explore subjects ranging from the world's greatest books to obscure English lives, confirming Woolf's faith in the value of writing and in the common reader she addresses. |
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... Miss Ormerod , equally of course Miss Lipscomb was the sister of Miss Ormerod's family doctor ; and so she did no sketching that morning , but left with a handsome bunch of grapes instead - for every flower had drooped , ruin had stared ...
... Miss Ormerod , equally of course Miss Lipscomb was the sister of Miss Ormerod's family doctor ; and so she did no sketching that morning , but left with a handsome bunch of grapes instead - for every flower had drooped , ruin had stared ...
Pagina 138
... Miss Ormerod , ' said Dr Lipscomb , who had grown a little white over the ears . ' I should say the farmers of England ought to set up a statue to you , bring offerings of corn and wine - make you a kind of Goddess , eh - what was her ...
... Miss Ormerod , ' said Dr Lipscomb , who had grown a little white over the ears . ' I should say the farmers of England ought to set up a statue to you , bring offerings of corn and wine - make you a kind of Goddess , eh - what was her ...
Pagina 195
... Miss Hill touches this one , out , terrible to relate , topples a stout old gentleman . In plain English , Miss Mitford had a father . There is nothing actually improper in that . Many women have had fathers . But Miss Mitford's father ...
... Miss Hill touches this one , out , terrible to relate , topples a stout old gentleman . In plain English , Miss Mitford had a father . There is nothing actually improper in that . Many women have had fathers . But Miss Mitford's father ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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