Does Virginia Woolf need updating?
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Virginia Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day, was criticised by Katherine Mansfield for being out of date as soon as it appeared, in 1919. The prewar world it depicts is “so far away, so shut and sealed from us today”, she said in her review. The book, she insinuated, is “a novel in the tradition of the English novel… we had never thought to look upon its like again!” Ouch! Woolf was stung – but she never wrote so traditional a novel again, and later acknowledged it to have been “a mistake”.
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