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Virginia Woolf – in her own words

Her lecture ‘Craftsmanship’, part of a BBC radio broadcast from April 29, 1937.

‘Words do not live in dictionaries, they live in the mind.’ – Virginia Woolf

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Vita Sackville-West – in her own voice

Reading passages from The Land, recorded by Columbia in 1931 for the International Education Society.

I find these sorts of thing enormously moving: hearing the voices of long-gone people I’ve heard in my head for years.

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A hem

Hemingway’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech: “A writer should always try for something that has never been done, or that others have tried and failed”.

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