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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... Women Up to the beginning of the nineteenth century the distinguished woman had almost invariably been an aristocrat . It was the great lady who ruled and wrote letters and influenced the course of politics . From the huge middle class ...
... Women Up to the beginning of the nineteenth century the distinguished woman had almost invariably been an aristocrat . It was the great lady who ruled and wrote letters and influenced the course of politics . From the huge middle class ...
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... women were allowed to learn Latin and Greek . The Satur- day Review gave cogent expression to what men feared for women and needed of women in the year 1864. The idea of submitting young ladies to local university examinations ' almost ...
... women were allowed to learn Latin and Greek . The Satur- day Review gave cogent expression to what men feared for women and needed of women in the year 1864. The idea of submitting young ladies to local university examinations ' almost ...
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... women could on the surface have less in common . Lady Augusta , it is true , was no more highly educated in a bookish sense than the middle - class women whom Miss Davies cham- pioned . But she was the finest flower of the education ...
... women could on the surface have less in common . Lady Augusta , it is true , was no more highly educated in a bookish sense than the middle - class women whom Miss Davies cham- pioned . But she was the finest flower of the education ...
Inhoudsopgave
This for Remembrance | 7 |
Further Reminiscences | 14 |
The Pastons and Chaucer | 20 |
Copyright | |
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