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Flush

Virginia Woolf

Start date: September 1, 2022

Finish date: September 30, 2022

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Sep 23, 2019 Kenny rated it it was amazing

Shelves: brits, people, virginia-woolf

"Do words say everything? Can words say anything? Do not words destroy the symbol that lies beyond the reach of words?"
Virginia Woolf ~~ Flush

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May 28, 2025 Ann rated it really liked it

Shelves: borrowed-from-library, historic-fiction, bingo2025

Virginia Woolf has taken various literary and historical references to a family dog and written him a little imaginary biography. But it was no ordinary dog, for Flush was the pet of Elizabeth Barrett (later to add a Browning to her name). It is the work of the historian, taking little clues and tidbits and working out a story.

Some of the imaginings stray a little too far for me -- especially the long passage on scents and odors and the importance of nose to dog. She's not wrong, but I found my ...more

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Feb 17, 2011 Laura rated it it was ok

Shelves: read-2011, memoir-biography, audio-books, animals

Virginia Woolf's delightfully whimsical biography of the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's beloved spaniel, Flush, is read by Jenny Coverack. Flush was given to Miss Barrett by a family friend, and the young spaniel very quickly became the poet's devoted companion and constant atttendant at her bedside in her father's house in Wimpole Street. In this first episode, Flush must learn to forget his early life in the country, and become used to days spent in an invalid's bedroom.

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