Aimée Gasston

Bio

Aimée Gasston is a Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is coeditor of Katherine Mansfield: New Directions (Edinburgh University Press) and her monograph, Material Modernisms: Short Fiction and Things, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan.

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Virginia Woolf’s Armchair

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Let everyone make h[er]self an amateur —Clive Bell, Art, 1920 [1] Reading has changed the world and continues to change it. —Virginia Woolf, “The Love of Reading,” 1931 [2] Virginia Woolf’s memoirs resonate richly with seating, beginning with the rocking chair from which she heard her father drop books to the floor at Hyde Park Gate. [3] Leslie Stephen had “written all his books lying sunk in that deep rocking chair,” Woolf would recall in the essay “A Sketch of the Past,” his feet clear of the...

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