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...lived there until one day in 1941 when she stepped out to drown herself in the River Ouse. Her father's first wife was Thackeray's daughter. Her father was Essayist Leslie Stephen. Her husband was Essayist Leonard Woolf. Her brother-in-law was Art Critic Clive Bell. She educated herself in her father's vanguard-Victorian library, honed her fine wits against the most delicately abrasive minds in Edwardian and Georgian London. Her first novels, The Voyage Out and Night And Day, were a blotted watercolor of social comedy in Jane Austen's manner...
...Room a dead young man's life fades in other people's memories like a match streak on a tepid stove lid. In Mrs. Dalloway an image of all London shines and synchronizes beneath the reverberations of London's belling clocks. In To The Lighthouse, which Critic Daiches calls "the perfection of Virginia Woolf's art," the rhythms of time and death and change suffuse and subtilize a half-mystic seascape, a long-delayed excursion, an equally delayed resolving of family discord...
Writing of Virginia Woolf's non-fiction (The Common Reader, A Room of One's Own, Three Guineas), Critic Daiches suggests that she might have made a good political pamphleteer. It seems rather like gelding the lily. Yet Mrs. Woolf is memorable for clarity as well as iridescence. A devoted artist, she was no political revolutionist, but she had her veins of wrath. She wrote: "We may prate of democracy, but actually, a poor child in England has little more hope than had the son of an Athenian slave to be emancipated in that intellectual freedom of which...
Besides his progress report to Congress, Jim Landis could take some satisfaction last week from showing his OCD predecessor, rolypoly Mayor LaGuardia, longtime Landis critic, that the OCD-approved jet method of quenching fire bombs worked in 15 seconds (TIME, July 27), that the LaGuardia spray method took...
...Roots of American Culture, edited after her death by Critic Van Wyck Brooks, includes eight essays. One examines the esthetic opinions of Founding Fathers Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, John Adams, and the culture of their time. One is an almost book-length study of the early American theater. One is a shorter companion piece on music. One is about the Shakers, who became "a folk" in one generation, then all but died out, due to their insistence on celibacy, in another. There are minor pieces on Negro tradition, folklore, the early U.S. genre painter Voltaire Combe, and the possible future...