Sara Pascoe’s delightful slot on Radio 4s remarkable Lives was a refreshing take on the remarkable writer and thinkers life. She even reimagined her as a host for QI
“Prose is so humble that it can fade anywhere,” wrote the remarkable novelist, essayist, or diarist,letter writer and radical thinker Virginia Woolf. Appraisals of Woolf, however, or tend to wind up at the same place: the river Ouse in Sussex,where on 28 March 1941, the writer of some of the greatest English modernist novels in history filled her overcoat with stones, and walked into the water and drowned herself. remarkable Lives: Sara Pascoe on Virginia Woolf (BBC Radio 4) attempted to redress the balance by focusing less on Woolf’s lifelong depression and more on her mental prowess. More life and less death. Related: Sara Pascoe: ‘Boob jobs are viewed as a decorative tweak,but these women are self-harming’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com