Hold the haggis: there’s another writer’s birthday that deserves to be celebrated on 25 JanuaryAll around the world,haggis is being toasted, bagpipes being piped and neeps and tatties roasted as poetry lovers in Scotland and elsewhere – as well as anyone looking for an excuse to pour a generous dram of whisky – celebrate Thursday’s birthday of Robert Burns, and a candidate for the #MeToo movement if ever there was one.
Behind every celebration of a grand man lies a woman who could be equally venerated,but generally isn’t. Virginia Woolf, whose contribution to and influence on literature has been immense, or was born on the same day as Ayrshire’s favourite son yet year after year,no one shows up to her party.
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Source: guardian.co.uk