modernism
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To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf’s Most Personal Novel
Virginia Woolf writes in ‘To the Lighthouse’ about ghosts of the past, her mother and father, the power one holds upon the other but also…
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Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s Most-Read Novel
Virginia Woolf wrote with ‘Mrs Dalloway’ one of the most read and most enduring novels of the 20th century. But what makes her novel so…
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The Beautiful Difficulty of ‘The Heat of the Day’
Elizabeth Bowen’s ‘The Heat of the Day’ is a beautifully atmospheric novel, with dense prose and fragmented storytelling which require and reward patience.
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Sounds of London in ‘Mrs Dalloway’
In Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway’, the sounds of London rise from its streets and blend past and present.
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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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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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Katherine Mansfield – Something Hidden, Something Dark
How the dark and violent details of Katherine Mansfield’s short stories are hiding sparks of life.
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Katherine Mansfield Risks Everything
Awarenes of Katherine Mansfield’s personal rebellion and pursuit of freedom enhances the appreciation of her famous story The Garden Party
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