February 2012
15 posts
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Feb 24th
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Feb 24th
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“Yet genius of a sort must have existed among women as it must have existed among...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (via awritersruminations)
Feb 23rd
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“… but ‘I’ rejected: ‘We’ substituted: to whom at the end there shall be an...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 26 April 1938 (via proustitute)
Feb 19th
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Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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“Discretion is not the better part of biography.”
– Lytton Strachey
Feb 14th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 12th
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Feb 11th
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Heads up: Carrington, the 1995 film staring Emma Thompson as Bloomsbury painter Carrington, is now streaming on Netflix.
Feb 10th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 8th
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Feb 4th
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“There are two principal models for biography in our culture, and perhaps the...”
–  from Brooke Allen’s review of Rosamund Bartlett’s new biography on Tolstoy. (Which I incidentally perused an advance copy of last summer!)
Feb 3rd
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