January 2011
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Jan 28th
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“I would like to get out of this place. But outside, rain is falling, the...”
– colette, ‘moments of stress’ (1913), in robert phelps, ed., the collected stories of colette, p.138.
Jan 28th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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“The searching gaze of the woman on the omnibus wandered for an instant from all...”
– evelyn sharp, ‘the women at the gate’ (1910), in bonnie kime scott, ed., gender in modernism: new geographies, complex intersections, pp.37-43 (pp.37-8).
Jan 23rd
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Jan 22nd
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“Here then is a little summary of what I need - power, wealth and freedom. It is...”
– katherine mansfield, journal, may 1908.
Jan 22nd
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“Katherine Mansfield was saved, it seems to me, by two things - her inveterate...”
– elizabeth bowen, ‘a living writer: katherine mansfield’, in the mulberry tree, p.79.
Jan 18th
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“I was jealous of her writing. The only writing I have ever been jealous of.”
– Virginia Woolf on Katherine Mansfield (Diaries, vol. 2, p. 227)
Jan 18th
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“[…] these selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, as...”
– virginia woolf, orlando (1928), p.294.
Jan 4th
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