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'This curious silent unrepresented life': Greek lessons in Virginia Woolf's early fiction.(Critical Essay)

From: The Modern Language Review  |  Date: 4/1/2005  |  Author: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki

'This Curious Silent Unrepresented Life': Greek Lessons in Virginia Woolf's Early Fiction by Vassiliki Kolocotroni

Virginia Woolf famously identified with the culturally disenfranchised. As a young woman and aspiring writer, she was irked by her exclusion from formal training in the classics, and especially Greek, a language and a literature in which, she would later argue, 'the stable, the permanent, the original human being is to be found'. Yet Woolf's knowledge of classical ...

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