Love Unlimited
Jun 11, 2019
3 minutes
Lynne Tillman
Virginia Woolf is, has been, and will be attacked or dismissed by some because she was an upper-class Englishwoman, and her detractors contend her class origin separates Woolf too much from “us.” To these detractors, her class makes her writing irrelevant and tendentious. In Orlando, she writes:
Crime and poverty had none of the attraction for the Elizabethans that they have for us. They had none
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