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When invited to dine with the officers they declined, in their version of Swahili – seemingly translated by Woolf's brother, Adrian Stephen – because the food and drink had not been prepared correctly.
How a bearded Virginia Woolf and her band of 'jolly savages' hoaxed the navy 2012
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In "Dancing With Mrs. Dalloway"—the title refers to Virginia Woolf's novel and people who inspired some of the characters—some of the literary back-stories presented are familiar; others, less so.
Writers at Work, Seeking a Spark Elizabeth Lowry 2011
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Virginia Woolf's Orlando: And the twelfth stroke of midnight sounded; the twelfth stroke of midnight, Thursday, the eleventh of October,
A Conversation with Elizabeth D. Samet, author of Soldier's Heart 2010
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Even Woolf's cousin, one of the naval officers on board the ship, failed to recognise the author in her fake beard.
How a bearded Virginia Woolf and her band of 'jolly savages' hoaxed the navy 2012
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These irruptions serve to heighten the sense of Laing's absorption, and the scale of her thought, but run the risk of her sounding a little rarefied: a shame since her reading of Woolf's diaries, letters and unpublished work here goes some way to debunking similar, routine assumptions about that writer.
To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing – review 2011
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In an attempt to quell criticism, the LSE said Woolf's inquiry would look at a range of connections with the Gaddafi regime, including:• The £2.2m contract to train Libyan civil servants and professionals.
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Although Virginia Woolf's version of "psychological realism" needs to be taken as a special case -- it's so pure an attempt to stay within the flow of her character's stream of thought -- I would argue that most expository passages in modern fiction do in fact take place as part of the "foregrounding of psychology."
Genre Fiction 2010
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She was respectful of Woolf's artistry but concluded that Woolf's work was too rarefied for most readers.
Writer With a Cause Martin Rubin 2011
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Woolf's A Room of One's Own had been published in 1929 and she reminded some 200 young women, "well dressed keen & often beautiful", that they were "practising for the first time in history I know not how many different professions . . . you have won rooms of your own in the house hitherto exclusively owned by men."
A stage of her own: Elisabeth Scott and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre 2011
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Unlike Woolf's report, this one is unlikely to be published.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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