[Vwoolf] Fw: Leslie Stephen; TTL As Most Difficult Book

[Jean Mallinson]

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.
Jean Mallinson
On 9/10/2012 9:46 AM, jeannette smyth wrote:
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>     -----Forwarded Message-----
>     From: jeannette smyth
>     Sent: Sep 10, 2012 9:34 AM
>     To: "owner-VWOOLF at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu"
>     Subject: Leslie Stephen; TTL As Most Difficult Book
>
>     Dear Friends:
>
>     A cabbages 'n' kings post:
>
>     1.) King
>     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.
>     http://www.amazon.com/Myself-Other-Fellow-Robert-Stevenson/dp/0066209846
>
>
>
>     2. Cabbage
>     /To the Lighthouse/ named one of the top 10 most difficult books
>     of all time.
>
>     http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/book-news/tip-sheet/article/53409-the-top-10-most-difficult-books.html
>
>     Take care,
>
>     Jeannette Smyth
>
>
>
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