Even though under Fascism Italy was experiencing a period of harsh and patriarchal dictatorship, a feminist writer such as Virginia Woolf was reviewed and discussed in the only forum where foreign ideas – and writers – could still be read: literary periodicals. She was actually introduced as a ‘grand lady of literature’ to the Italian reading public, through comments and analysis which, in some cases, were even deeper and more focused than those of British and American reviewers.
Bolchi, E., The Grand Lady of Literature. Virginia Woolf in Italy under Fascism., in Dubino, J. (ed.), Antologia di saggi, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2010: 199- 208. 10.1057/9780230114791 [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/26378]
The Grand Lady of Literature. Virginia Woolf in Italy under Fascism.
Bolchi, Elisa
2010
Abstract
Even though under Fascism Italy was experiencing a period of harsh and patriarchal dictatorship, a feminist writer such as Virginia Woolf was reviewed and discussed in the only forum where foreign ideas – and writers – could still be read: literary periodicals. She was actually introduced as a ‘grand lady of literature’ to the Italian reading public, through comments and analysis which, in some cases, were even deeper and more focused than those of British and American reviewers.
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