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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was a celebrated novelist, critic, and essayist. The excerpt in these pages is taken from Carlyle’s House and Other Sketches, the first edition of her recently discovered 1909 sketchbook, which is being published on July 15 by Hesperus Press. (July 2003)

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