What is it about?
This essay investigates the considerable common ground in the artistic practices and the politics of the two writers. O'Brien wrote an experimental, misunderstood, and critically neglected novel which pays homage to Woolf's work, 'The Flower of May'. But one of O'Brien's books may have inspired Woolf too...
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Why is it important?
This is the first academic essay to investigate the links between Virginia Woolf and Kate O'Brien, which makes the work of both writers appear under a slightly different light.
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This page is a summary of: Kate O'Brien and Virginia Woolf: Common Ground, Irish University Review, May 2018, Edinburgh University Press,
DOI: 10.3366/iur.2018.0334.
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