WRIT 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Three Guineas, Clive Bell, Stephen Daldry
16 Jan 2018
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Leonard woolf--> husband, friend of her brother adrian, asexual marriage; started. Hogarth press to help virginia and distract her from her illness, jewish. Clive bell--> tried to go to bed with virginia. John maynard keynes--> married lydia; didn"t like lesbians :/ Lytton strachey --> famous for writing biographies, gay, tried to get close to ralph to marry him. Dora carrington --> in love with lytton; leonard hired dora to work for hogarth press. George duckworth--> her half brother, sexually abused her. Vita sackville-west--> friend or lover, writer as well. Importance of older sister vanessa o parents stephen and julia--> virginia and vanessa are part of 4, other 4 siblings were from previous marriages o not upper class--> lower part of upper-middle class. Connections with plath; both w/n a struggle for women"s rights; both writers and in the writer"s life; both had mental difficulties; both committed suicide. 1. woolf"s sexuality and that of her friends.
