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Page 43
... woman.'10 The fact that Virginia was not a ' real woman ' , but frigid , childless and aloof , constantly disturbed her mind . Vita resem- bled Vanessa Bell , the delightful sister she admired and envied , in that each was a woman ...
... woman.'10 The fact that Virginia was not a ' real woman ' , but frigid , childless and aloof , constantly disturbed her mind . Vita resem- bled Vanessa Bell , the delightful sister she admired and envied , in that each was a woman ...
Page 100
... woman suffers from such a woman's point of view . She was ' a writer before she was a woman ' , she said ; men and women are equally prone to suffer in every story that she wrote ; and on the relationship between ' A Novelist and his ...
... woman suffers from such a woman's point of view . She was ' a writer before she was a woman ' , she said ; men and women are equally prone to suffer in every story that she wrote ; and on the relationship between ' A Novelist and his ...
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... woman , neither distin- guished nor particularly seductive , with a long , not very classic nose . Asked to name her , the painter replied that she was Daisy de Broglie albeit a very different Daisy and went on to explain that , when he ...
... woman , neither distin- guished nor particularly seductive , with a long , not very classic nose . Asked to name her , the painter replied that she was Daisy de Broglie albeit a very different Daisy and went on to explain that , when he ...
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The Desire to Please | 25 |
The Disinterested Gift | 47 |
The Death of the Lion | 66 |
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