Fiona Davis on Librarians, Our Literary Heroes
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18 Fascinating Facts About Charles Dickens
Dickens’s unprecedented celebrity made him the most popular novelist of his century—but the author of Great Expectations, Bleak House, A Christmas Carol, and dozens of other works was more than just a writer.
Source: mentalfloss.com
Who was Vishwanath Singh Bahadur? This is how a queer Maharajah and his court seduced an Englishman
Joe Randolph Ackerley’s trip to India, which inspired him to write ‘Hindoo Holiday’, took place 100 years ago.
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Virginia Woolf, an entire life in a notebook
The writer’s monumental diaries have been published in five volumes. In them, she outlines her novels and essays, mixes genres and records her moods… including suicidal thoughts
Source: elpais.com
The Diary of Virginia Woolf review – a book for the ages
Woolf’s epic and unmatchable record of her life, times and writing process
Source: theguardian.com
The Paris Review - A Letter from Henry Miller
“Always, when cogitating and recogitating, a lait chaud.”
Source: theparisreview.org
Anthony Grafton · A Degenerate Assemblage: Bibliomania · LRB 13 April 2023
New York couldn’t compete with London or Paris: it had no bouquinistes, no Farringdon Road, no British Library or...
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The New York Public Library examines Virginia Woolf's life and creative process in new exhibition
Virginia Woolf is the focus of the latest free exhibition opening at a href= http://www.nypl.org target= _blank The New York Public Library /a . Vi
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The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis – genesis of a masterpiece
Hollis brilliantly sifts through the tendrils of TS Eliot’s unhappiness and shows how, with help from friends, he broke through his tortured silence to create an era-defining poem
Source: theguardian.com
Comparing Woolf's Jacob's Room and Beethoven's Third
How does the formal originality of Jacob’s Room, its dark tenor, fit into the arc of Woolf’s career? I found unexpected and illuminating answers to this question in an all-Beethoven concert at Carnegie Hall.
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