Thursday, June 07, 2012

Complex girls...

...Tahmima Anam on complicated literary heroines
Fragile, sexually ambiguous, and with her heart in the past, Mrs Dalloway (1925) is an ephemeral presence in Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece. Yet she sparkles with life, prompting her old lover to note her presence, simply and repeatedly: “there she was”.

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