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'The Village in the Jungle' as colonial memoir: Woolf writing home

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Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium
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Victoria Glendinning, biographer of Leonard Woolf, offers her insights from extensive archival research into the life of Woolf in Ceylon and Britain.
She explores Woolf's relationship to the metropolitan centre through his movement out to the colonial periphery and back again, exploring all that it held for him, including the Bloomsbury group and, of course, Virginia herself.

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Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium
People
Victoria Glendinning
Keywords
oxford
Colonialism
novel
woolf
english
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 18/06/2013
Duration: 00:35:08

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