![]() She skewers Wells, Galsworthy and Bennett as writers whose work has outlived their time and purpose (and admirer though I am of these three she does have a point). Her portraits of the more obscure writers whose fame either died with them, or at best has flickered on, is of interest to readers of Woolf even if it is not for the subjects themselves. If there has ever been a better piece on Jane Austen's genius I've never read it. The Paston essay places the documents within their historical context to an extent that you can relate to the persons described as living, breathing, human beings. ![]() Many of these have gained classic status, and no wonder. This anthology of essays by Virginia Woolf on English literature is arranged chronologically by writer from the high medieval (the Paston documents and Chaucer) to the then current era (post WWI). ![]()
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