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Selected Essays | Anne Fadiman on Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf's Suicide

If I were editing Virginia Woolf and she weren't around to ask I wouldn't change a word. Changes like that you really can't make without discussing them with the author. The segue from one to I is one of the things that makes this essay so powerful. If we assume that it was written in the fall of 1940 which many scholars believe but as my colleague Margaret Holman says been very clear about no one knows for sure.

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