When Northeastern University freshman Michel Goldberg went to her school’s health center, she complained of pains in her ear. The staff nurse, treating it as a routine earache, prescribed an antibiotic.
Over the next five months, Michel, a high school athlete who normally was in robust health, visited the Lane Health Center at least three times, suffering from fatigue and chills. (more…)
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So Woolf’s delight in Austen’s confident style and rancor-free mind is tempered by her feeling that, after all, there is something slight and unweighty about Austen’s work, so that her significance, though real, may owe much to her role as a Missing Link between Fanny Burney (a great early success story among female novelists in the generation before Austen’s, and still a good read) and, well, Woolf’s own more open, enlightened, liberated generation.
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