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In a remarkable letter to Ethel Smyth in 1930, Virginia Woolf locates the source of female creativity in women’s “burning centre.”
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© 2007 Patricia Moran
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Moran, P. (2007). “The Flaw in the Centre”: Writing as Hymenal Rupture in Virginia Woolf’s Work. In: Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Trauma. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230601857_3
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