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<DIV><SPAN>George Sampson, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Concise
Cambridge History of English Literature</I> (Cambridge at the University Press,
1941), p. 975: ‘Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), daughter of Leslie Stephen, is
another [like Rose Macaulay in the previous paragraph] of “books in the
blood”.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Such novels of limited
renown as <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Jacob’s Room</I> (1922), <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Mrs. Dalloway</I> (1925), <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">To the Lighthouse</I> (1927), <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Orlando</I> (1928) and <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Waves</I> (1931) have been greeted as
original experiments in a new technique of fiction—the exploration of
consciousness replacing the exploitation of event.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Actually they are the attempts of an
essayist not instinctively a novelist to use fiction as a means of
expression.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Virginia Woolf has
small invention and her characters are the transient and embarrassed phantoms of
her ideas.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>A better measure of her
quality can be gained from her critical studies, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Common Reader</I>, first series (1925),
second series (1932) and <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">A Room of One’s
Own </I>(1929).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Three Guineas</I> (1938) proved
disappointingly unconstructive.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Her
essays in criticism, traditional in form and theme, have far more genuine
impulse than her novels, which carry little conviction as vital
creations.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Mrs Woolf rises from her grave to comment: </SPAN><SPAN>“An
illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self taught working
man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw,
striking & ultimately nauseating.”</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN><FONT color=#000000>George Sampson (1873-1950) was the “<SPAN
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and youngest child of<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=name
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Sampson</SPAN><SPAN
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mariner ... </SPAN><SPAN
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health prevented him from going to school until nearly eleven and circumstances
compelled him to leave before he was sixteen. He was then set to work for London
matriculation and was trained as an elementary schoolteacher at Southwark Pupil
Teacher School and Winchester Training College. ... <SPAN
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History of English Literature</EM></SPAN><SPAN
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Its completion was delayed by ill health, but when it was published it was
rightly hailed as a<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN><EM
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de force</EM>” (<EM>ODNB</EM>).</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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