First published in 1914, two years after he had married Virginia, Leonard Woolf’s second novel The Wise Virgins must have shocked its readers with its tale of an unfortunate coupling and hasty marriage. Now the romance/sex all seems rather tame, and this fiction startles for a very different reason: its harsh caricature of Jewishness (Woolf himself was Jewish) and its tart comments on suburban life.
Hill Farm
Hester
The Importance of Music to Girls
A Conversation on the Quai Voltaire
The Night Watch
The Pure in Heart
Susanna, the Captain & the Castrato
Behind the curtains, beyond the gate
The New House
Fair as a star, when only one is shining in the sky
Anny: A Life of Anne Thackeray Ritchie
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