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Enormously popular English poet (1812-1889).

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Suburb in west London.

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Room adjoining a kitchen, used for cleaning dishes and storing cutlery and other household items.

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Used to keep food warm.

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Informal indoor robe.

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Reddened.

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George Romney (1734-1802), English portrait painter.

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Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859), English writer; his Confessions of an Opium Eater was a favorite of Woolf ’s mother, Julia Stephen.

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The English authors Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) and G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) and Irish author George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) wrote on political and social issues. ‡rare bird (Latin); meaning “a rarity.”

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Kind of candle.

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English churchman and writer Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), best known for his satirical works, including Gulliver’s Travels and “A Modest Proposal.”

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Seaside resort in southern Wales.

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London’s largest park.

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Fictitious village, possibly inspired by Wissett, in Suffolk, where Woolf and her sister Vanessa stayed in the summer of 1916.

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Omate hotel in London’s Russell Square, built between 1905 and 1911.

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Concert hall located near Oxford Circus, built in 1893; it was destroyed by bombing in 1941 during the London “blitz” of World War II.

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Fashionable art gallery in Mayfair, site of the first and second post-impressionist exhibitions (1910, 1912) organized by English art critic and painter Roger Fry.

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Venetian painter (c.1490-1576) noted for his use of rich colors.

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Now Devon, a county in southwestern England.

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Collective name for a school of illustrious Flemish painters of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries, including Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1560), Pieter (the Elder) Brueghel (c.1525-1569), and Peter Paul Rubens (1577- 1640).

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Spirited heroine of Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It.

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Residence of a parish priest (rector).

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Reference to four books of lyrical poems by Roman poet and satirist Horace (65-8 B.C.).