Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Rosamond Lehmann
Woolf, Townsend Warner and Lehmann left London for cold cottages, and had to work out how to keep writing among neighbours who had no idea what they did.
Three women writers left London for the countryside and had to rebuild a working life there, in cottages without much heating and among neighbours who had no idea what they did. Baker follows Woolf at Asheham, Townsend Warner in Dorset and Lehmann in Berkshire, and treats the domestic arrangements as part of the literary record rather than as background to it.
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Tyler Cowen
What is it like to be an unusual woman writer, with unusual proclivities, and have to build up or rebuild your work life in the countryside? There is now a whole book on this topic. Beautifully written, very British, will frustrate those who seek generalization but recommended nonetheless.
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