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  • 1. Virginia Woolf's Renaissance: amateurs and professionals Women and literary tradition The personal and the professional History or fiction? Literature and being: Quaker inheritance women and printing 2. Virginia Woolf and Montaigne: Them and Us A female genre The art of reading Rejecting authority Montaigne and gender 3. Virginia Woolf reads John Donne Undoing the 'masculine' John Donne Translating Donne into the feminine Rebels 4. Letters as resistance: Dorothy Osborne, Madame de Sévigné and Virgina Woolf Writing for pleasure Preaching, passion and privacy resisting the family: Dorothy Osborne Letters, great men and criticism 5. Diaries: Pepys and Woolf A passion for records Papys: social mobility and marriage Virginia Woolf: new woman Pepys and Woolf: temporal and spiritual accounts 6. Bunyan and Virginia Woolf: a history and a language of their own Women and the vernacular: Bunyan, Foxe and the Bible Outsiders 7. The body and the book Body and mind Bloomsbury: Sir John Harington and Woolf Bodies, politics and the unliterary The press and the fire