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Article: "Whose books once influenced mine": the relationship between E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and Virginia Woolf's 'The Waves.'.
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- Twentieth Century Literature
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- March 22, 1999
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In a letter to Ethel Smyth on 21 Sept. 1930, Virginia Woolf spoke of her friend Morgan Forster as "E. M. Forster the novelist, whose books once influenced mine, and are very good, I think, though impeded, shrivelled and immature" (Letters 4: 218). In earlier letters Woolf had often alluded to Forster's influence, even insisting on one occasion that "I always feel that nobody, except perhaps Morgan Forster, lays hold of the thing I have done" (14 June 1925; Letters 3: 188). By 1930 this literary friendship had continued for more than two decades and was characterized by the kind of edginess that often marks the relationships of highly competitive artists. During the same ...
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The Independent on Sunday;
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... ... his honeymoon with Virginia, Woolf's period piece is a dry conversation ... is insufficient to ennoble Woolf's discursive style, which is easily outpaced by James or Forster. This reprint is beautifully produced but Woolf's dated prose and the congested ...
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