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“Fiction . . . is not dropped like a pebble upon the ground, as science may be; fiction is like a spider’s web . . .”

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Kate Stover

Virginia Woolf continues, “attached ever so lightly, perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare’s plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves.” It’s only when the web is … Continue reading →

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“[L]adies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction.”

Posted on June 9, 2016 by Kate Stover

Purely by coincidence, I was reading Virginia Woolf”s A Room of One’s Own during the week that the first woman became the presumptive nominee for a major political party in the U.S.  In 1928, when Woolf gave a series of … Continue reading →

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