Tag Archives: Reading and Writing

Solitude, blessed solitude…

Posted on May 9, 2016 by Alice Lowe

I acknowledge in my essay that the topic has been done to death, & I ask what I could possibly add to it. My own take, that’s what, which draws not just from personal experience but from my reading: Virginia Woolf, … Continue reading →

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Isabel Bolton: a discovery and a new direction

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Alice Lowe

My discovery of the obscure mid-20th-century novelist Isabel Bolton led to extensive research and an exploratory essay. I wasn’t surprised when early in my search I discovered critics’ comparisons of Bolton to Virginia Woolf, and when I read the first of Bolton’s modernist novels … Continue reading →

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Virginia Woolf changed my life

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Alice Lowe

Several months ago I responded to a call for submissions on “Books that changed my life” at an entertaining and eclectic site called The Drunken Odyssey – a podcast about the writing life. Virginia Woolf’s A Writer’s Diary changed my … Continue reading →

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