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Virginia Woolf, the Common Reader?
Virginia Woolf comments on her reading in the second volume of ‘The Common Reader’, published in 1932.
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The House of Memory
‘A Sketch of the Past’ is one of Virginia Woolf’s autobiographical writings which gives us a sense of the writer’s childhood.
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Unconventional, Free, Creative Reading
‘How to Start Writing (and when to stop)’, Wislawa Szymborska, New Directions, 2021, translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh
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How ‘Jane Eyre’ Was Published – The Story in Charlotte Brontë’s Letters
That Charlotte Brontë published ‘Jane Eyre’ in 1847 under the name Currer Bell is well-known but what more is there to the story? Let’s see…
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S-Town – Narrative Nonfiction Podcast with a Looot of Twists
Whatever anyone (including this review) tells you what the podcast S-Town is about, it’s not. Unless they give you spoilers, which, for this podcast especially,…
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Truth, Fiction and 3 Women in ‘A Room of One’s Own’
In ‘A Room of One’s Own’ Virginia Woolf goes beyond the dichotomy fiction/nonfiction and gives shape to a form which defies definition and borders.
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Rechtschreibung, klar und systematisch
Annika Lamer, Rechtschreibung klipp und klar erklärt, Dumont 2022
nonfiction
I occasionally read essays, diaries, letters and biographies to get a deeper insight into the lives of authors I love. This is an overview of all the blog posts I wrote about nonfictional writings.
