Katia has given an image of this but I thought I’d share a few personal pics also because I had such a hard time imagining it when I first read the book. My friend Amanda remembered that her grandfather, who
Sister, my sister, O soft light swallow
“Itylus” By Algernon Charles Swinburne Swallow, my sister, O sister swallow, How can thine heart be full of the spring? A thousand summers are over and dead.What hast thou found in the spring to follow? What hast thou found in thine
Some Views from Combs 335
A few things from my literary tourism travels
I’m including several photos below, all taken by me in the archives of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt or at the special collections library of Smith College. (Even as I post some of these, I hesitate, lest I fetishize Woolf’s mental illness
with apologies to Benstock
Friends, I ripped through that essay and also gave you little time to say anything about it. So this is just an open invitation: what interested you, what seemed helpful (or not) as a working theory? Brief comments and longer
Someone had blundered
The lines that Mr. Ramsay recites in “The Window” are from Tennyson’s poem “Charge of the Light Brigade,” which celebrates the heroism of soldiers who were sent to their avoidable death in the Crimean War. Discuss.
Welcome to the Women of Modernism Blog
Our task this semester might be articulated by theorist Rita Felski’s questions: “How would our understanding of modernity change if instead of taking male experience as paradigmatic, we were to look instead at texts written primarily by or about women?
