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April 1st: another month to hear about the reading habits of one's Chrons colleagues....
Virginia Woolf “Flush”
A biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s dog Flush, somewhat anthropomorphised, but based on Barrett’s poems and letters. Very much "of its time". Fortunately just 106 pages in small penguin classic form – I read it in another attempt to see if I could manage to enjoy Woolf’s writing, knowing its short length would mean I could probably finish it.
What I did find interesting were the brief insights into 1840s London and Italy. There was good money to be made in London at that time in kidnapping dogs of the wealthy that had been let off their leads. Flush was kidnapped on three occasions and Barrett forked out a total of £20 in ransom money for his return. In surprising contrast there was no such cottage industry in Florence and Flush was free to roam the streets wherever he liked.
Virginia Woolf “Flush”
A biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s dog Flush, somewhat anthropomorphised, but based on Barrett’s poems and letters. Very much "of its time". Fortunately just 106 pages in small penguin classic form – I read it in another attempt to see if I could manage to enjoy Woolf’s writing, knowing its short length would mean I could probably finish it.
What I did find interesting were the brief insights into 1840s London and Italy. There was good money to be made in London at that time in kidnapping dogs of the wealthy that had been let off their leads. Flush was kidnapped on three occasions and Barrett forked out a total of £20 in ransom money for his return. In surprising contrast there was no such cottage industry in Florence and Flush was free to roam the streets wherever he liked.
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