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Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Trevelyan and momentous events of 1927
This essay is the first part of my afterword for the 2023 Recovered Books reissue of Gertrude Trevelyan’s 1938 masterpiece, William’s Wife. It’s about Virginia Woolf’s lecture at Oxford in May 1927 called ‘Poetry, Fiction and the Future’ and how, a month later, a young undergraduate called Gertrude Trevelyan became the first woman to win Oxford Universi…