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“For me personally, history is more important than artistic license, but artistic license is necessary to make the history palatable.”
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“My God, how does one write a Biography?” Virginia Woolf’s question haunts her own biographers. How do they begin? “Virginia Woolf was a Miss...
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4. You will buy another copy of a book you already own if you encounter a particularly beautiful edition. Fancy...
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“Barbabù [Bluebeard]” by Luca Morandini
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The Sea, The Sea - Iris Murdoch
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By the time James Garfield and Lucretia entered the White House, they had a strong, committed marriage, soon to be cut short by President Garfield’s assassination. During their courtship, they both expressed doubts about their relationship; Lucretia warned James before the wedding that her “heart is not yet schooled to an entire submission to that destiny which will make me the wife of one who marries me.” They spent most of the first few years of their marriage apart, with Lucretia continuing to teach and Garfield enlisting during the Civil War and devoting his attentions to a New York widow.James made it clear that he did not wish to have “any[thing] other than a business correspondence” with his wife. Following the death of two young children, the couple became much closer. She kept vigil next to his bedside during the three months he languished following the assassination attempt, and she later supervised the preservation of his extensive papers. Although she had time to destroy the letters that showed the problems in their relationship, she never did so. Betty Boyd Caroli finds that the correspondence shows “an intelligent, capable woman who reluctantly relinquished her own autonomy in favor of her husband’s career.”
Facts and quotations from First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama by Betty Boyd Caroli. C-SPAN is exploring the influence of First Ladies in its new series.
Image: Mrs. James Garfield, photographed between 1860 and 1870, printed later. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/82caa3dcd665e00227534df932c91c20/tumblr_mn3vxk3Nb01rl35vno1_500.jpg)
By the time James Garfield and Lucretia entered the White House, they had a strong, committed marriage, soon to be cut short by President Garfield’s assassination. During their courtship, they both expressed doubts about their relationship; Lucretia warned James before the wedding that her “heart is not yet schooled to an entire submission to that destiny which will make me the wife of one who marries me.” They spent most of the first few years of their marriage apart, with Lucretia continuing to teach and Garfield enlisting during the Civil War and devoting his attentions to a New York widow.James made it clear that he did not wish to have “any[thing] other than a business correspondence” with his wife. Following the death of two young children, the couple became much closer. She kept vigil next to his bedside during the three months he languished following the assassination attempt, and she later supervised the preservation of his extensive papers. Although she had time to destroy the letters that showed the problems in their relationship, she never did so. Betty Boyd Caroli finds that the correspondence shows “an intelligent, capable woman who reluctantly relinquished her own autonomy in favor of her husband’s career.”
Facts and quotations from First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama by Betty Boyd Caroli. C-SPAN is exploring the influence of First Ladies in its new series.
Image: Mrs. James Garfield, photographed between 1860 and 1870, printed later. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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![Faulkner tombstone, Oxford, MS [source]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/9011a5aa641fb965b3d8d72e6a74ca3c/tumblr_mn2qbtUPsZ1qhhidio1_500.jpg)
Faulkner tombstone, Oxford, MS [source]
Stella Benson and Virginia Woolf in 1926, from Monk’s House photograph album.
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“[W]e read Charlotte Brontë not for exquisite observation of character — her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy — hers is grim and crude; not for a philosophic view of life — hers is that of a country parson’s daughter; but for her poetry. Probably that is so with all writers…
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Virginia and Leonard Woolf, 23 July 1912. “It was too funny…[Virginia rushed upstairs to change into her] best Turkish cloak and satin slippers and so on…She made great eyes at Woolf whom she called markedly Leonard which seems to be a little forward. Her method of wooing is to talk about nothing but fucking and [illegible] which she calls with a great leer copulation and WCs and I dare say she will be successful, I hope so anyway.”
- Adrian Stephen, younger brother of Virginia Woolf, in a 1911 letter to Duncan Grant concerning Leonard and Virginia’s courtship.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lj5nz16zIk1qgcn2wo1_500.jpg)
Virginia and Leonard Woolf, 23 July 1912.
“It was too funny…[Virginia rushed upstairs to change into her] best Turkish cloak and satin slippers and so on…She made great eyes at Woolf whom she called markedly Leonard which seems to be a little forward. Her method of wooing is to talk about nothing but fucking and [illegible] which she calls with a great leer copulation and WCs and I dare say she will be successful, I hope so anyway.”- Adrian Stephen, younger brother of Virginia Woolf, in a 1911 letter to Duncan Grant concerning Leonard and Virginia’s courtship.
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