20th century
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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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Children and Parents in ‘To the Lighthouse’
This fourth time reading Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’ revealed to me the depths in the relations between children and parents.
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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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How to Read “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”
D.H. Lawrence’s last novel, “Lady Chatterley’s Lover”, is a story of class and forbidden love, filled with explicit scenes of love-making and profane words. But…
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Sylvia Townsend Warner and Her Fantasy Worlds
Sylvia Townsend Warner captivates us with a wide range of literary styles in her books. But there’s an element she always returns to – fantasy.
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Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Uncollected Stories
Sylvia Townsend Warner’s uncollected stories. ‘The Music at Long Verney’, The Harvill Press, 2001
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Lolly Willowes – Autumn, Witchcraft, Satan
‘Lolly Willowes’, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Penguin Classics, 2020. First published by Chatto & Windus 1926.
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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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Something Tangible, Alive, Threatening
‘The Villa and The Vortex’, Elinor Mordaunt, Handheld Press, 2021
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