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| May 5, 1927 |
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| Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) |
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Virginia Woolf and To the Lighthouse
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| by Steve King |
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On this date in 1927 Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was published by the Woolfs' Hogarth Press. Many of the earliest reviews were lukewarm, compared to the modern view that the novel is one of the century's best, or to this praise from Conrad Aiken in the summer of '27:
Nothing happens, in this houseful of odd nice people, and yet all of life happens. The tragic futility, the absurdity, the pathetic beauty, of life-we experience all of this in our sharing of seven hours of Mrs. Ramsay's wasted or not wasted existence. We have seen through her, the world.
Virginia Woolf's own attitude to her accomplishment was, as usual, jittery ... FULL STORY »
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