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...most "abominably unknown" contemporary writer, according to Ford Madox Ford, is Dorothy Richardson, a 56-year-old, myopic Englishwoman. During the past 23 years she has published eleven volumes (eight in the U. S.) of a lifework called Pilgrimage. Ford ranks her with Proust, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf as an inventor of the "stream of consciousness" technique, believes her obscurity is due to critics' and readers' distaste for distinguished writing...
...mere horse feed. Both had been beaten by mediocre horses since last spring. But 40,000 devotees, nonetheless interested, jampacked the old Civil War race course outside Baltimore. In hushed silence they watched the two thoroughbreds walk up to the starting line,* watched Seabiscuit, with Georgie Woolf up, zoom in front in the first few strides. At the first quarter Seabiscuit was two full lengths ahead. Then a roar swept over the ancient stands: pretty little War Admiral, the favorite, was closing the gap-one length, two lengths. At the half-mile post they were neck & neck; at the three...
Twenty years ago, before the word "feminist" had begun to triten, Virginia Woolf considered that the proper study of mankind was sensitive, intelligent women with independent incomes. She kept to that belief till she had made herself the best-known woman novelist in England. Recently, however, world events have put even the sort of intelligent women she likes to write about in a dangerous spot; in Three Guineas she takes a stand on today's crop of social questions...
Lying round unanswered in Virginia Woolf's desk as the book opens are three letters requesting the gift of a sum of money. Being an intelligent woman who must make her own living, she can contribute only a guinea (about $5) to each. First guinea goes to rebuild a women's college, is accompanied by a long letter containing her views on education. If the college is to be rebuilt on the old lines, she says, her guinea might as well go for matches to burn it down. She would like it to be a "poor college," with...
...guinea, to a society for helping women enter the professions, also has a string tied to it: the women must withdraw from the professions as soon as they can, before they start yawning at dinner. The third guinea goes to a society for prevention of war-and because Virginia Woolf is not very sure how societies go about preventing war, it has no conditions at all. She sympathizes, naturally, with its aims. But to the invitation to join its ranks she answers No. Women are different from men; they would lose their identity by going into bi-sexual societies. They...