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    Interesting about fathers. I gather -- though I have not yet read it
    -- that Patrick Bronte is revealed in a recent biography as a person
    rather different from the one Elizabeth Gaskell depicted in her
    biography of Charlotte.. I am astonished that To the Lighthouse is
    considered "difficult". I wonder what that can mean! I found it
    lucid from my first reading when i was in my twenties.<br>
    Jean Mallinson<br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/10/2012 9:46 AM, jeannette smyth
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        From: jeannette smyth <jeannette_smyth@earthlink.net><br>
          Sent: Sep 10, 2012 9:34 AM <br>
          To: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:owner-VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">"owner-VWOOLF@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu"</a> <owner-vwoolf@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu><br>
            Subject: Leslie Stephen; TTL As Most Difficult Book <br>
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                      face="arial,sans-serif">A cabbages 'n' kings post:
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                      1.) King <br>
                      All my life I've read of Leslie Stephen as the
                      histrionic, stingy and tyrannical father of
                      Virginia Woolf. It is a Rashomon-like reality
                      check (and also confirmation of his sexism) to
                      read of him as the humane, sardonic and
                      perspicaceous editor who discovered Robert Louis
                      Stevenson. <br>
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href="http://www.amazon.com/Myself-Other-Fellow-Robert-Stevenson/dp/0066209846">http://www.amazon.com/Myself-Other-Fellow-Robert-Stevenson/dp/0066209846</a></font></font></font></p>
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                      2. Cabbage <br>
                      <em>To the Lighthouse</em> named one of the top 10
                      most difficult books of all time.</font></font></font></p>
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href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/tip-sheet/article/53409-the-top-10-most-difficult-books.html">http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/tip-sheet/article/53409-the-top-10-most-difficult-books.html</a></p>
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              <p>Take care,</p>
              <p>Jeannette Smyth</p>
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