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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve been reading these responses with interest as I think they would be great to share with students we’re currently teaching. I honestly can’t recall the first work by Woolf that I read, but I do remember that I decided not to take a
course on the Bloomsbury Group my first year in college in 1969 because I had never heard of that group! I know I began teaching Woolf first in the 1970s, specifically
<i>To the Lighthouse</i>, because I took high school students on a literary tour of the U.K., and we spent two nights in St. Ives. The characters in that novel and in her other works have remained with me for decades as I’ve aged and gained new perspectives
on them. That E.M. Forster questioned her ability to create truly vital characters has always puzzled me.<o:p></o:p></p>
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