english literature
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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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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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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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The Quartet of Unity and Dispersion in ‘Between the Acts’
Virginia Woolf’s ‘Between the Acts’ could be read and imagined as a play. But what does this say about its characters, who are plain to…
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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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The Other Women of ‘Mrs. Dalloway’
“Let us not take it for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small”…
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House in the Light of Time
The story of a house that, unlike the Ramsays’ vacation house in ‘To the Lighthouse’, wasn’t lucky enough to have people return to it.
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