Virginia Woolf and London Quotes

“The tea table at 22 Hyde Park Gate provided an informal education in diversity for the young Virginia Stephen. Not only did she encounter the “great men” of the Victorian and Edwardian eras—Symonds, Watts, Meredith, Lowell, James—who were family friends, but she listened too while”
― Susan Merrill Squier, Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City

“Because of her gender she is banished—first to the sidelines, and then from the tent altogether. Her empathy with tramps and gipsies reveals that, even in her position at the tent flap, she feels transitory, impoverished, powerless.”
― Susan Merrill Squier, Virginia Woolf and London: The Sexual Politics of the City