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Geoffrey Cust Faber : A Character Study of the Oxford Movement

Saturday 12 August 1933: 'I've been reading Faber on Newman; compared his account of a nervous breakdown; the refusal of some part of the mechanism; is that what happens to me? Not quite. Because I'm not evading anything. I long to write The Pargiters [work in progress]. No. I think the effort to live in 2 spheres: the novel; & life is a strain'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf      Print: Book

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