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Why should you read Virginia Woolf? - Iseult Gillespie

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How best can we understand the internal experience of alienation? In both her essays and her fiction, Virginia Woolf shapes the slippery nature of subjective experience into words, while her characters frequently lead inner lives that are deeply at odds with their external existence. Iseult Gillespie helps make sense of these disparities to prepare you for the next time you read Virgina Woolf.

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the video biography

The video is very relevant and necessary to the reader's Virginia Woolf, because is about the her story and her inspirations.

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