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“On Being Ill” by Virginia Woolf

Woolf dared to write about illness when it was a taboo subject
Posted on April 20, 2018 by Laura B Hayden (Blog Writer, Sevenponds)

  Most recognized for her feminist novels, Virginia Woolf also broke literary barriers tackling a topic previously shunned by American writers: sickness. “On Being Ill” first appeared in 1926, in an early issue of T.S. Eliot’s literary review, the New Criterion. In the essay, Woolf seeks … Continue reading →

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