[Vwoolf] Encountering Virginia Woolf

[William Bain]

To the Lighthousewas also my first introduction to
Virginia Woolf, and I think it's a good place for people
to start. I wanted to say on Forster, though, and his view
of Woolf, that he was in the position of a competitor, and
that might have influenced his assessment. And they of
course wrote different types of novels. It might be that he
didn't understand the changes that were coming about, or
simply disliked them.
Best wishes, WB




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 From: Eleanor McNees <Eleanor.McNees at du.edu>
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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 To the Lighthouse, 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.
 
Best wishes,
Eleanor
 
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