The past provides ‘that perspective which is so important for the understanding of the present’ ( P. Let us be our great grandmothers,’ she wrote in the first essay of The Pargiters, explaining that her use of the fictional extracts was to be an aid to this process for those unused to ‘being somebody else’. ‘We must become the people that we were two or three generations ago. In brief, Woolf's original plan was for a ‘Novel-Essay’, a ‘novel of fact’, in which essays would be interspersed with extracts from ‘a novel that will run into many volumes’: ‘Its to be an Essay-Novel, called the Pargiters – & its to take in everything, sex, education, life &c & come, with the most powerful and agile leaps, like a chamois across precipices from 1880 to here & now’ ( D.
The history of The Years is a complex one. I have this moment, while having my bath, conceived an entire new book – a sequel to a Room of One's Own – about the sexual life of women: to be called Professions for Women perhaps – Lord how exciting! This sprang out of my paper to be read on Wednesday to Pippa's society.
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