literature cambridge
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‘The Waves’ – A Flower with Six Petals
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves is a tapestry of feelings and perceptions, knit together by 6 friends, a 7th absent one and a narrator who seems…
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Woolf and Shakespeare in Cambridge
Second year in a row in Cambridge reading Virginia Woolf and seeing an open-air performance at the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival
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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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A Woman in a House
Virginia Woolf writes in ‘To the Lighthouse’ about man and woman, the power one holds upon the other, the intimacy which binds them together. But…
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Woolf Days in Cambridge Part 1
I’m in Cambridge this week, reading and discussing Woolf’s works and visiting the city
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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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The Other Women in the Tapestry 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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