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• Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf by Norah Vincent
  |title=Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf |summary=Set in 1925–1941 and focussing on Virginia Woolf's marriage and later career, this is a remarkable picture of mental illness
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• Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf by Norah Vincent
  |title=Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf |summary=Set in 1925–1941 and focussing on Virginia Woolf's marriage and later career, this is a remarkable picture of mental illness
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• Top Ten Literary Fiction Books of 2015
  |title=Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf ...oes not mark a significant anniversary, speaks to a continuing interest in Woolf's life and writings.
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• Category:C G Metts
  ...ainst a feminist backdrop hued by the writings of Kate Chopin and Virginia Woolf.
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• Companions by Christina Hesselholdt and Paul Russell Garrett (translator)
  ...s told through a series of monologues, so if you enjoy ''Companions'' then Woolf is definitely the place to go. But if you'd like to try a Danish novel with
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• April 2015 Newsletter
  ...a remarkable picture of mental illness from the inside. A true Modernist, Woolf was ahead of her time as much as she was defined by it. For the depth of it
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• Weatherland: Writers and artists under English skies by Alexandra Harris
  ...'Orlando'', that Alexandra Harris was given the inspiration for this book. Woolf uses the ever changing weather as a fascinating device to guide the reader
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• Restless by William Boyd
  ...it makes them hard work to read. Is it the reason you don't like Virginia Woolf? (or am I remembering wrongly?). ...y of their bedroom, not foisting their navel onto the rest of us. Virginia Woolf is the perfect example of this. We have poetry to extend the bounds of lang
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• A Book of Secrets, Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers by Michael Holroyd
  ...g environments we catch glimpses of the famous, like E.M.Forster, Virginia Woolf, sometimes accompanied by her close confidante, Vita Sackville West and the ...elationships which were to include Virginia Woolf. These passions inspired Woolf to write of pageant and androgyny in ''Orlando.'' From a literary viewpoint
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• Proust Was a Neuroscientist by Jonah Lehrer
  ...ic discoveries and the novels of George Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf. A scientist, who has researched with Nobel Prize-winning, [[:Category:Eric ...pace and its provocative style. For instance, Lehrer doesn't mention that Woolf was a victim of child abuse and this will have deeply traumatised her lonel
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• Release by Patrick Ness
  ...from Judy Blume's classic teen novel ''Forever'', and partly from Virginia Woolf's ''Mrs Dalloway''. It takes place over the course of a single day, as Adam
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• House of Exile: War, Love and Literature, from Berlin to Los Angeles by Evelyn Juers
  ...United Front harder still. Sensibilities of women, like those of Virginia Woolf or like gentle Nelly, who had early in her life suffered the traumatic loss ...his difficult relationship with his brother, which is mirrored by Virginia Woolf, stoically sticking at her novels between headaches which forced her to tak
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• A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon
  ...g [http://www.aspotofbother.co.uk/virtualtour blog]. The entry on Virginia Woolf's ''To the Lighthouse'' almost changed my mind about a book I really dislik
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• Capturing Emilia by Brooke Adams
  ...ough he's a branch of W H Smith, or lectures him on the merits of Virginia Woolf, but her depth excites Charles: he was used to his dates talking about fash
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• The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of London by Laurence Manley (editor)
  ...ywrights, ranging from Chaucer to Ian McEwan, via Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf, this is certainly a comprehensive look at its subject. It splits the histo
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• The Unspoken Truth by Angelica Garnett
  ...ather, until she was rather suddenly told the truth. Her aunt was Virginia Woolf. As a child she grew up surrounded by the conversations of her intellectual
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• The Art of Fiction by David Lodge
  ...Austen and Henry James through to James Joyce, Samuel Beckett and Virginia Woolf. There are a smattering of contemporary authors featured too including the
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• Waltzing in Vienna by C G Metts
  ...it's tempered with references to serious women's literature, like Virginia Woolf's ''A Room of One's Own'' and Kate Chopin's ''The Awakening''.
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• Memory by Harriet Harvey Wood
  ...memory full stop. We also get the most well-known writing on memory, which Woolf either adored or never managed to finish - that of Proust.
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• A Broken World: Letters, diaries and memories of the Great War by Sebastian Faulks and Hope Wolf
  ...re are extracts here from famous authors such as D H Lawrence and Virginia Woolf but, as Faulks confirms in the introduction to the book, both he and Dr Wol
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• All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
  ...rossing that line) and there are some lovely touches like all the Virginia Woolf quotes. The writing is fluid and though the story slows and then speeds up,
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• Trio by William Boyd
  ...all her a 'novelist' but the days when she was known as ''the new Virginia Woolf'' have passed by in a cloud of alcohol fumes and she thinks that no one kno
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• Breakfast with Socrates by Robert Rowland Smith
  ...kes the example of George and Martha in Albee's ''Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf''. When he doesn't quite have the same springboard (in the chapters on visi
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• Max Gate by Damien Wilkins
  ...omance by Patricia Duncker]] and especially [[Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf by Norah Vincent]].
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• Flaneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin
  ...eir creator's life. The London chapter, likewise, is mostly about Virginia Woolf, who, like her heroine Mrs Dalloway, was a typical ''flâneuse''. Other sec
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• Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land by Robert Crawford
  ...publication of James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' and ''Jacob's Room'' by Virginia Woolf), but Crawford only leads us to the front door of this literary revolution.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Elizabeth Speller
  ES: Dr Samuel Johnson, Virginia Woolf, Louis MacNeice, Sydney Carton (from the Tale of Two Cities) and Dorothy Pa
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• The Stranger in the Mirror: A Memoir of Middle Age by Jane Shilling
  ...is here, with ''Chéri'', ''The Last of Chéri'' and her memoirs. Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Nancy Mitford, Diana Athill (the modern chronicler of
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• Rupert Brooke: Life, Death and Myth by Nigel Jones
  ...n something of an on-off basis with the likes of Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.
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• The Sixteenth of June by Maya Lang
  ...ing in death, but also to finish his languishing dissertation (on Virginia Woolf) after seven years.
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alma Katsu
  ...to are "Life Among the Savages" by Shirley Jackson, "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf, "The World According to Garp" by John Irving, "The Floating Opera" by John
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To SJ Griffin
  ...ove like the aforementioned John Kennedy Toole, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Richard Ford, Haruki Murakami, Mary McCarthy, for example. Now I think abo
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To C G Metts
  ...it, barbs and dialogue I gleaned a bit from Oscar Wilde and Eudora Welty. Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” was also part of that process.
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• Newest Travel Reviews
  ...The decision was made to ride the Trans America Bike Trail from Yorktown, Virginia to Astoria, Oregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. They had 73 days to d |author=Jo Woolf
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• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Susie Day
  ...a’s Book series is about the meaning of art and was inspired by a Virginia Woolf novel. The emotional impact should feel as big whether what’s at stake is
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• The Campus Trilogy by David Lodge
  ...n the UK''. With Graham Greene, Harper Lee, Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf to their credit, it's hard to disagree.
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