Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading book…

Virginia Woolf
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Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas, p.142
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Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Morag Shiach (1998). A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas, p.142

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