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Woolf
in the World:
A Pen and a Press of Her Own
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Woolf's Reading Notes
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Woolf often distilled her reading notes into essays. In “How
Should One Read a Book?” the shape of Anna Karenina
is contrasted to the shape of Clarissa, like the angle
of a house “cut out against the fullness of the harvest moon.”
In the essay Woolf also compares Richardson’s verbosity and
obliqueness to Tolstoy’s brevity and directness. Woolf was
writing this essay at the same time as she composed her first draft
of To the Lighthouse. Anna Karenina is mentioned
in the novel as well. |
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Woolf. Reading notes on Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: holograph,
23 March [1926].
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Woolf. Reading notes on Clarissa Harlowe by Samuel Richardson:
holograph, 7 June 1926.
Presented
by Frances Hooper ’14.
Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College
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