By admin, 25 November, 2023

And since a novel has this correspondence to real life$$$ its values are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious that the values of women differ very often from the values which have been made by the other sex; naturally this is so. Yet is it the masculine values that prevail. Speaking crudely$$$ football and sport are "important"; the worship of fashion$$$ the buying of clothes "trivial." And these values are inevitably transferred from life to fiction. This is an important book$$$ the critic assumes$$$ because it deals with war.

By admin, 25 November, 2023

However$$$ the majority of women are neither harlots nor courtesans; nor do they sit clasping pug dogs to dusty velvet all through the summer afternoon. But what do they do then? and there came to my mind’s eye one of those long streets somewhere south of the river whose infinite rows are innumerably populated.

By admin, 25 November, 2023

When$$$ however$$$ one reads of a witch being ducked$$$ of a woman possessed by devils$$$ of a wise woman selling herbs$$$ or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother$$$ then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist$$$ a suppressed poet$$$ of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen$$$ some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed$$$ I would venture to guess that Anon$$$ who wrote so many poems without signing them$$$ was often a woman.