Holly Fairgrieve

3 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Holly Fairgrieve |Claire Harman |Vanessa Curtis |Richard Price

To access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe hereVirginia Woolf’s museIn search of the real Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus SmithThe idea that Vita Sackville-West was the model for Orlando (1928) is well established, but who exactly inspired Woolf’s other great work of fictional biography, Mrs Dalloway (1925), remains uncertain.

3 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Claire Harman |Holly Fairgrieve |Vanessa Curtis |Richard Price

To access over 1000 book reviews, essays and more, subscribe hereOur secret friendJane Austen as a ‘life guide’Jane Austen’s novels are full of readers: Catherine Morland, Anne Elliot, Charlotte Heywood, Fitzwilliam Darcy, who, piqued at being disturbed by Miss Bingley, reminds her that the most important task of the woman who wishes to achieve true accomplishment is “the improvement of her mind by extensive reading”.