"Yes, always keep the classics on hand to prevent the fall."
Virginia Woolf.
To subtitle this novel, I will use the
name given to Margaret Atwood women dealt with in the novel: "Muses stuffed", also claiming that breaks a lance for all the silly women who gave us literature.
The unique and privileged English society to which you belong The wise virgins and men who view them, are subject to a patchwork of conventions, where they of all ages do not bite the bait of adventure, living under the moral or pattern intellectual power about them satisfied and proud of their mission guardian.
Who opens his mouth to say it does immovable subject to the decalogue of good manners, oriented toward an end that none other than being a guide or student, male over female in successive ages, from childhood to marriage to widowhood.
Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons are the two front lines, words and manners, selflessness and effervescence, blinded both to travel on the same social rank of their lineage.
The praises which are chewed inline to fool around while women who give happiness.
Could this be an autobiography of the novel ideologue Blomsbury group, with other names to give the fiction a distance, but is so translucent the adjacent parallel with those personalities themselves out to be the ego that does not fit the world that overlap their lives.
A map of Puritanism which excels some idea of individual freedom that every marriage can maul.
Another century hesitant coming to the opinions of the suffragettes or the discipline of reading they want to abandon the romantic pattern of Robert Burton and cause resistance to not go wrong with Dostoevsky.
Leonard Sidney Woolf was born in London in 1880. It was the third of ten children of the Jewish barrister Solomon Rees Sydney and Marie (de Jongh) Woolf. Educated at St Paul's School in London and in 1899 won a scholarship at Trinity College, Cambridge to study classics. He was elected to the exclusive group of "apostles" at Cambridge, where trabaría friendship with Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Thoby Stephen, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Beltrand Russell, who later would be part of the Bloomsbury group
In 1913 he
published his first novel, A villa in the jungle, inspired in part by his experiences in the colonies. A year later appears wise virgins (written between October 1912 and August 1913). And 1916 he published the treatise International Goverment, which strongly influences the creation of the League of Nations.
It was during those years when his wife
Virginia worsening of his increasingly frequent attacks manic-depressive. Always attentive to the health of his wife, and partly to procure a distraction, buy in 1917 a small manual printing machine with which founded the famous Hogarth Press, editorial directed until his death, and where published, apart from the works of Virginia Woolf's own, work friends like T. S. Which Eliot published The Waste Land, "Katherine Mansfield and E. M. Forster, with designs by the painter Vanessa Bell (sister of Virginia). In 1941, despite the care given by her husband, Virginia was suicidal, and soon falls in love Woolf Trekkie Parsons, an illustrator married, twenty years his junior, and this relationship will last a quarter century. Leonard Woolf died on 14 August 1969. His ashes were scattered in the lands of Monk's House in Rodmell, Sussex.