"'We pour to the edge of a precipice,' [Virginia] wrote in her diary, 'and then? I cant conceive that there will be a 27th June 1941.'"
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Mrs. Woolf and the Servants: An Intimate History of Domestic Life in Bloomsbury | 
"'We pour to the edge of a precipice,' [Virginia] wrote in her diary, 'and then? I cant conceive that there will be a 27th June 1941.'"
Mood.
"Virginia rowed with Ethel [Smyth] and wrote furiously to her, condemning her as...'living in a mid-Victorian dentist's waiting room of emotional falsity'" ?⚰
Today in odd similes, courtesy of Virginia Woolf's correspondence.
"[T]he writer Rebecca West thought Virginia always looked as if she had been pulled through a hedge backwards."
A gift from a wonderful friend a behind the scenes look at Virginia Woolf &her servants What it was like to be a domestic servant in a world gone by.
It's getting a bit too autumnal and chilly in my part of the world for much #readingoutside, but I popped out into my yard and read a few sentences just for this challenge. I take my Litsy-ing VERY seriously. 😉 #SomethingforSept
Book mail! This one arrived today (hmm... it would have been a good fit for yesterday's #workplacebooks). I'm carrying on with my recent Bloomsbury obsession and about to pour myself a bev while I check out the new acquisition. #bookanddrink #somethingforsept @RealLifeReading #booksandbooze
