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Article: Jane Harrison and lesbian plots: The absent lover in Virginia Woolf's The Waves.
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- Studies in the Novel
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- December 22, 2005
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as the current answers don't do, one has to grope for a new
one; & the process of discarding the old, when one is by no
means certain what to put in their pace, is a sad one. Still, ...
what answers do Arnold Bennett or Thackeray, for instance,
suggest? Happy ones--satisfactory solutions--answers one
would accept, if one had the least respect for one's soul?
Virginia Woolf, Diary 1:259
In 1927 when planning for The Waves, Virginia Woolf wrote about her intention to invent "a new kind of play" that resulted in a work praised as an "exemplary high modernist text," "taking to the brink her experimentalism in plot, lyric, and character" ...