“For she had a great variety of selves to call upon, far more than we have been able to find room for, since a biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may have many thousand…and these selves of which we are built up, one on top … Continue reading Virginia Woolf on A Great Variety of Selves
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Adrienne Rich on Brave and Imaginative Women
Carolyn See on the Official Version
This eloquently expressed idea is always in the back of my mind as I sift through the ashes of J's career. Her contributions to the cultural fabric of her era deserve to be resurrected, reexamined, and reevaluated. May she be one of many women whose lives are thrust into the light of visible history.
Oscar Wilde on the True Mystery of the World
Lytton Strachey on Human Beings
(The painting is by Dora Carrington.)
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Samuel Johnson on Reading
Alternative Muses 