“and while I was writing this  review, I discovered that If I were going to review books I should need to do battle  with a certain phantom.” “It was she who used to come between me and my paper when I was writing reviews. It was she who bothered me and wasted my time and so tormented me that at last I killed her”…“and while I was writing this review, I discovered that If I were going to review books I should need to do battle with a certain phantom.” “It was she who

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Edited with an Introduction and Notes by DAVID BRADSHAW. “Virginia Woolf. Selected Essays”, Oxford University Press, New York, 2008. Professions for Women, SELECTED ESSAYS: Reading and Writing. Page 141.