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Article: Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings.(Review)
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- Studies in the Novel
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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BARRETT, EILEEN, and PATRICIA CRAMER, eds. Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings (New York: New York University Press, 1997). 352pp. $55.00 cloth; $18.95 paper.
New York University Press's "Lesbian Life and Literature" series has added another title to its excellent list of works of lesbian modernism. Joining books on and by Djuna Barnes, Natalie Barney, H. D., and Elizabeth Bowen, and important critical works by Marilyn Farwell and Elizabeth Meese, is Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings, a ground-breaking volume of essays on Woolf's diverse lesbian affiliations.
These essays fall into two categories: "Lesbian Intersections"--or discussions of Woolf's relation ...