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The story of Scott’s tragic journey to reach the South Pole ahead of his Norwegian rival is well known. It’s a tale of personal ambition and national pride, of grim courage and extraordinary endurance, of ill luck and wrong decisions – and of stubborn, almost foolhardy, determination. The writings of those who died on that journey – Dr Wilson, Lieutenant …
This month took me to New York for the US launch of Vanessa and Virginia. While I was there I contributed to a round table discussion about Virginia Woolf. The other panelists included Ruth Gruber, who wrote the first Ph. D. on Virginia Woolf in the 1930s. Ruth (now 97) described tea with Virginia and Leonard Woolf in their London …