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cuddling in knole house

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) …The house on the cover of Iris Murdoch’s last novel is Knole House in Sevenoaks, Kent. Knole House was the home of Vita Sackville-West, a writer and gardener, … Continue reading

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AESTHETIC OF ILLNESS: "THIS MONSTER, THIS BODY"

Alix Strachey, a practising psychoanalyst and an old friend of the Woolfs, discussing why Leonard had not persuaded Virginia to see a psychoanalyst about her mental breakdowns, concluded ‘Virginia’s imagination, apart from her artistic creativeness, was so interwoven with her … Continue reading

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GEOMETRY OF LOVE: The Square Root of Living in Fractions

“Virginia and Vanessa, despite their occasional differences, had an unbreakable bond of love and support. Hermione Lee expounds at length about their dysfunctional childhood which undoubtedly acted as an indissolvable glue in their relationship. But as for the rest of … Continue reading

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