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
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.
