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“Time Passes”: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

To the Lighthouse is the reason I love Virginia Woolf. It chronicles grief, consciousness, memory, how these are tied intimately to a place, and how people handle change over time. The first section of the book, “The Window,” sets up the relationships among the characters, traces the geography (both human and physical) surrounding the narrative,Continue reading ““Time Passes”: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”

Woolfian geography

The name of this blog was inspired by the work of Virginia Woolf. I need to track down where the quote about the sky comes from exactly (Jacob’s Room? The Waves? I had a volume of three books in one, lovingly annotated, that I then lent to a friend… who never returned it.). But here’sContinue reading “Woolfian geography”