"Some things don’t change: there is little consensus on anything, save that all think Shakespeare the greatest genius among writers who ever lived, except for Belloc, who voted for Homer, and Macaulay, who... didn’t know."
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Saturday, March 09, 2019
Literary Confessions Unearthed
While sorting through the papers of his grandmother, the novelist Margaret Kennedy, William Mackesy found a book titled “Really and Truly: A Book of Literary Confessions”. Within were pages of printed questions with 10 sets of handwritten answers dated between 1923 and 1927. They were written by Rose Macaulay, Rebecca West, Hilaire Belloc, Stella Benson, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Kennedy and others.
Read more: The Independent
Read more: The Independent
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