Posted by A. C. Geoghan on March 12, 19104 at 21:27:42:

In Reply to: Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown posted by Adeline Johns-Putra on February 09, 19100 at 06:48:01:

I think Woolf was referring to the first Post-Impressionist exhibition in London, "Manet and the Post-Impressionists," arranged by Roger Fry, Clive Bell (husband of her sister Vanessa), and Desmond MacCarthy. This was a major event for the Bloomsbury Group, but probably didn't change human character forever. There's a book by Peter Stansky that explains more: On or about December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World.

It's a coincidence that I ran across your post while doing some online research. I'm a graduate student at the University of VA, planning a dissertation on women writers and the epic genre, and although I've not yet read your book, I've looked at it enough to know that it's going to be very helpful to me as I begin this project. Since I'm a modernist, I'll be focusing on women's epic writing in the 20th century, but it's great to know that there are others out there who didn't take "women didn't write epics" for an answer.

Regards,
Aimee Geoghan
ageoghan@hotmail.com

: Forgive my ignorance, for I am no Woolfian and not even a Modernist, but when Woolf states in 'Mr. Bennett and Mrs Brown' that 'on or about December 1910 human character changed' is she talking about a specific event or events? If so, what?
: Cheers,
: Adeline Johns-Putra
: Department of English
: University of Tampere
: Finland

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