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Saturday 12 April [1919] These ten minutes are stolen from [Daniel Defoe’s] Moll Flanders … A great writer — & Forster has never read his books! I was beckoned by Forster from the [London] Library as I approached. We shook hands very cordially; & yet I always feel him shrinking sensitively from me, as a woman, a clever woman, an up to date woman. Feeling this I commanded him to read Defoe, & left him, & went & got some more Defoe….
From The Diary of Virginia Woolf, ed. Anne Olivier Bell assisted by Andrew McNeillie, 5 vols (London: Hogarth Press, 1977–84) I, 263, 291, 294–5, 310–11; II, 138–9, 171–2, 203–4, 241, 269–70; III, 49–50, 193; IV, 297–8, 321; V, 23, 130, 337.
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Rose Macaulay’s The Writings of E. M. Forster (1938).
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Stape, J.H. (1993). The Diary of Virginia Woolf. In: Stape, J.H. (eds) E. M. Forster. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12850-1_14
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