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Page 413
... Virginia Woolf , and Dorothy Richardson , though the two latter have probably already fallen into perspective as the smallest talents of the four , all one can do here is briefly to indicate their aims and attempt a purely personal ...
... Virginia Woolf , and Dorothy Richardson , though the two latter have probably already fallen into perspective as the smallest talents of the four , all one can do here is briefly to indicate their aims and attempt a purely personal ...
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... Virginia Woolf's requirements in that it contains in the accepted sense no plot , no comedy , no tragedy , no love interest or catastrophe ; there is only Miriam Henderson , living from day to day , expe- riencing , feeling , reacting ...
... Virginia Woolf's requirements in that it contains in the accepted sense no plot , no comedy , no tragedy , no love interest or catastrophe ; there is only Miriam Henderson , living from day to day , expe- riencing , feeling , reacting ...
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... Virginia Woolf's novels is this very ques- tion ; when one thinks in the abstract of a typical Virginia Woolf character one seems to see a tiny figure on tiptoe eagerly grasping a buttefly net alert to snare the signifi- cant , the ...
... Virginia Woolf's novels is this very ques- tion ; when one thinks in the abstract of a typical Virginia Woolf character one seems to see a tiny figure on tiptoe eagerly grasping a buttefly net alert to snare the signifi- cant , the ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
Copyright | |
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