On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf, Lieke Marsman, Nadia de Vries, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, Audre Lorde, Deryn Rees-Jones, Mieke van Zonneveld, Sinéad Gleeson, Jameisha Prescod

172 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays health memoir philosophy challenging reflective slow-paced

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The subtle complexities of Virginia Woolf’s essay ‘On Being Ill’ will no doubt continue to be resonant for a new generation of readers today. Certainly for both Woolf and Plath, the politics of illness are never far away. “Illness”, Woolf wr...

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