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Are Too Many Books Written and Published?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Leonard Woolf,
Virginia Woolf and
Melba Cuddy-Keane
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In July 1927, Virginia Woolf participated in the first of three broadcasts she presented on the BBC. “Are too many Books Written and Published?” was a collaborative project, scripted jointly with her husband, Leonard Woolf, in the typical BBC format of the conversational debate. Virginia was not entirely comfortable in front of a radio microphone, feeling as she did the constrictions of prescribed time limits, the BBC's conventional respectability, and even the sound of her own voice. Yet she engaged in this program with a liveliness, a good humor, and an inventiveness that display her public persona at its best.

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Little-Known Documents
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PMLA , Volume 121 , Issue 1: Special Topic: The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature , January 2006, pp. 235 - 244
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2006

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Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf's broadcast and an excerpt from Leonard Woolf's letter to Lance Sieveking are printed by permission of the Society of Authors as the Literary Representative of the Estate of Leonard Woolf and the Estate of Virginia Woolf.

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