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Literary haunts: Virginia’s London walks
Virginia Woolf walked London’s parks for inspiration, and to find solace from her dark moods. Seventy years after her great-aunt’s death, Emma Woolf argues that you can still find her restless spirit there.
“Oh, life, how I have dreaded you, oh, human beings, how I have hated you… how hideous you have looked in Oxford Street, how squalid sitting opposite each other staring in the Tube!”
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Literary haunts: Virginia’s London walks

Virginia Woolf walked London’s parks for inspiration, and to find solace from her dark moods. Seventy years after her great-aunt’s death, Emma Woolf argues that you can still find her restless spirit there.



“Oh, life, how I have dreaded you, oh, human beings, how I have hated you… how hideous you have looked in Oxford Street, how squalid sitting opposite each other staring in the Tube!”

Read more…

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