20th century
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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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The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf’s First Novel


It’s hard to read Virginia Woolf’s first novel objectively, knowing her later work. I keep looking for the Woolf I know. But she was not…
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Do Electric Sheep Elicit Empathy?


In Philip K. Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ Rick Deckard is convinced he can tell “andys” apart from humans by using an established…
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Orlando. He Was a Woman.


‘Orlando is the hero who turns into a heroine, in a biography which turns out to be a fiction’ (Hermione Lee, ‘Virginia Woolf’)
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To the Lighthouse – Mrs Ramsay in Her House


In Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’ Mrs Ramsay and the house on the Isle of Skye are one character.

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