23 Comments

Virginia always delivers.

Expand full comment

She does! Thanks for reading, Victoria 💕

Expand full comment

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.

Expand full comment

Thank you for reading, Rod. And I do believe you’re right!

Expand full comment

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.

Expand full comment

Lovely! Thanks for sharing, Ronald. I look forward to listening to it! :)

Expand full comment

Ronald's right! This story is strikingly similar to 'The Lady in the Looking Glass'. Thanks for sharing it Victoria :)

Expand full comment

You’re very welcome, Tash :)

Expand full comment

This story was brilliant I’d never heard of it before and there it was in my inbox thank you, as always Victoria!

Expand full comment

Thank you for reading, Joanne 🤎

Expand full comment

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.

Expand full comment

Thank you for reading, Mary. I’m so pleased you enjoyed it 💛

Expand full comment

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.

Expand full comment

That’s such a lovely comment. Thank you, Mary 🧡

Expand full comment

A very good read! (A great line early, about the lemon!)

Expand full comment

“… lemon on cold steel”. Wonderful! Thanks for reading, Dorinda 💛

Expand full comment

Thank you for your wonderful posts .So much to read ,in the limited time before my eyes and my mind begin to fail .

Expand full comment

Thank you for commenting, Paddie. And your support. I’m so pleased you’re enjoying the posts 🧡

Expand full comment

It's no good. I lost interest about half way through. Sometimes I just wish she'd get to the point!

Expand full comment

I think her work is a little like Marmite :) 🤎

Expand full comment

This piece might help you appreciate it in a different way.

https://centerforfiction.org/fiction/an-unwritten-novel-by-virginia-woolf/

Expand full comment

Thank you for this. I need Woolf more than ever now.

Expand full comment

You’re very welcome, Anita 🧡

Expand full comment