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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Approximate author period: c. 1911 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Virginia Woolf
Attribution: attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1911 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1882 to 1941; Wikidata Q40909, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40909 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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