Wonderful; thank you so much for posting. Mrs Woolf is the consummate dispassionate observer, conjuring one world, with so many lives – I don't think that anyone else has written in this style as well as she, though many have attempted to.
You are doing what no one else on Substack is: opening the world to art, to writing, to discovery of the unknown. Your following is testament to this work. I honor you here on this post and all that precede them.
Virginia always delivers.
She does! Thanks for reading, Victoria 💕
Wonderful; thank you so much for posting. Mrs Woolf is the consummate dispassionate observer, conjuring one world, with so many lives – I don't think that anyone else has written in this style as well as she, though many have attempted to.
Thank you for reading, Rod. And I do believe you’re right!
I read this one a couple of weeks ago while preparing for a podcast chat on the 'Virginia Woolf Reading Group' Substack about another story 'The Lady in the Looking Glass ' https://open.substack.com/pub/virginiawoolfreadinggroup/p/a-conversation-about-the-lady-in?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1fe93o
Which has a very similar story line. A conversation about 'Kew Gardens' went up there this morning.
Lovely! Thanks for sharing, Ronald. I look forward to listening to it! :)
Ronald's right! This story is strikingly similar to 'The Lady in the Looking Glass'. Thanks for sharing it Victoria :)
You’re very welcome, Tash :)
This story was brilliant I’d never heard of it before and there it was in my inbox thank you, as always Victoria!
Thank you for reading, Joanne 🤎
The empathy here: heartbreaking as Woolf searches through the sorrow of the woman she does not know.
I had not read this story before, Victoria, though I have read so much of Woolf. I thank you.
Thank you for reading, Mary. I’m so pleased you enjoyed it 💛
You are doing what no one else on Substack is: opening the world to art, to writing, to discovery of the unknown. Your following is testament to this work. I honor you here on this post and all that precede them.
That’s such a lovely comment. Thank you, Mary 🧡
A very good read! (A great line early, about the lemon!)
“… lemon on cold steel”. Wonderful! Thanks for reading, Dorinda 💛
Thank you for your wonderful posts .So much to read ,in the limited time before my eyes and my mind begin to fail .
Thank you for commenting, Paddie. And your support. I’m so pleased you’re enjoying the posts 🧡
It's no good. I lost interest about half way through. Sometimes I just wish she'd get to the point!
I think her work is a little like Marmite :) 🤎
This piece might help you appreciate it in a different way.
https://centerforfiction.org/fiction/an-unwritten-novel-by-virginia-woolf/
Thank you for this. I need Woolf more than ever now.
You’re very welcome, Anita 🧡