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Seventy-seven years ago, Virginia Woolf declared that “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” And for nearly 35 of those years, proponents of a women’s center, women and men both, have asked for the same tools in order to battle what they call female “marginalization” at Harvard. The newly opened Harvard College Women’s Center, and the connected offices of the Ann Radcliffe Trust, are the long-awaited products of those calls...
...voice is soothing, his awkward hand gestures are graceful, and his long fingernails are quite useful as pointers. But in the interim, you may be a bit distracted and freaked out. Give Albright a chance, and you'll soon understand his dense but interesting lectures about Swift, Wordsworth, Keats, Woolf, and Beckett, among others. The course tries to cover a lot of ground; many students give up when assigned a 500-page George Eliot novel in one week. However, what you do choose to read, you'll enjoy...
...counter-arguments in Expos. I find that thinking of questions my readers will ask themselves as they read my work—whether a paper or a Crimson article—and addressing those questions make for a solid piece of writing. Why wouldn’t Virginia Woolf create a narrator in “To the Lighthouse” who is clearly defined? The process might seem simple, but I sometimes forgot to be a step ahead of the reader, and to bring my thoughts to fruition; Expos changed that...
More recently, she earned an Emmy for her role in made-for-television movie “Angels in America.” Streep has also tackled a wide range of roles, from a lesbian divorcée in “Manhattan” to Virginia Woolf in “The Hours...
Correction: The original article incorrectly stated that the actress Maryl Streep played the role of Virginia Woolf in the movie The Hours. In fact, she played the role of Clarissa Vaughan...