January 2011
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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)
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“[…] these selves of which we are built up, one on top of another, as...”
– virginia woolf, orlando (1928), p.294.
December 2010
9 posts
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“Morning light, no longer sending its signal across the world, but concentrated...”
– dorothy richardson, dimple hill (1938), in pilgrimage: volume 4 (p.476).
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“She kept herself marvellously alive to all the changes that went on around her,...”
– Virginia Woolf (Moments of Being)
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tessa hadley reads bowen's 'the jungle' →
from the guardian short story podcast series, author tessa hadley reads elizabeth bowen’s story, ‘the jungle’ (1929).
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“How tired I am of stories, how tired I am of phrases that come down beautifully...”
– virginia woolf, the waves (1931), p.199.
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November 2010
10 posts
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“Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the...”
– elizabeth bowen, ‘pictures and conversations’, in the mulberry tree, p.283.
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“Still the room kept for her the ghost of its early strangeness; it would never...”
– elizabeth bowen, to the north (1932), p.180.
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