English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1518 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Virginia Woolf
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The idea
Virginia Woolf, daughter of the editor Leslie Stephen, was denied the university education her brothers received. A member of the Bloomsbury Group, she founded the Hogarth Press with her husband Leonard, and rejected the Victorian ideal of "the Angel in the House."
In practice
Bloomsbury, Hogarth, the angel rejected.
Where people slip
Woolf wrote novels and essays.
Your place on the trail
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