February 2012
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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)
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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)
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Discretion is not the better part of biography.
– Lytton Strachey
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Heads up: Carrington, the 1995 film staring Emma Thompson as Bloomsbury painter Carrington, is now streaming on Netflix.
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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!)