Here the original format is reproduced, along with a speech to a group of professional women that foreshadowed The Pargiters the fictional sequences are faithfully transcribed to show the many corrections and deletions appearing in the original manuscript. Woolf abandoned the experiment, daunted by the problematic ""marriage of granite and rainbow,"" and the extracts were absorbed into the ""1880"" section of The Years. What ended up as Woolf's 1937 novel, The Years, began as an experimental ""Novel-Essay,"" The Pargiters, with five ""extracts"" from an imaginary novel alternating with six Essays that discuss the issues-primarily feminist-exemplified in the fiction, as well as the special challenges facing the woman novelist.
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