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Article: A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers.
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- August 19, 1988
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A Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers
CAROLYN HEILBRUN'S review of Lyndall Gordon's Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life (The New York Times Book Review, Feb. 10, 1985) was--so I thought at the time--a truly representative screed: a specimen of contemporary "literary" "culture." It's all about the autobiographical nature of art and the obscurities of feminine wisdom and we get to "the masculinist bias of English departments" PDQ.
But we also get to the author--and the subject--of A Sinking Island: "Mrs. Gordon's measured account of 'a writer's life'..." wrote Mrs. Heilbrun, "should do much to place Woolf where she belongs, at the heart of the canon of ...