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What a marvelous read this was! I'm a Woolf fan from way back, but hadn't read this one before. The story of Woolf's childhood in the gloomy house in Kensington, the deaths of her mother and father and stepsister, Stella, are poignant and tragic. The effects of these deaths on Woolf's psychology and fiction are obvious; it was difficult for her to recover from the loss of her mother when Woolf was only 13 and it had a horrible effect upon her mind. She used her fiction to work through these loss
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Gloomy Hydepark Gate 22 followed by nascent and promising Bloomsbury. The high point being the wonderful first dazzling meeting with Roger Fry: "He appeared in a large ulster coat, every pocket of which was stuffed with a book, a paint box or something intriguing; special tips which he had bought from a little man in a back street; he had canvasses unders his arms; his hair flew; his eyes glowed. He had more knowledge and experience than the rest of us put together. His mind seemed hooked on to
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