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    A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf 's "The Duchess and the Jeweller"
    A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf 's "The Duchess and the Jeweller"
    A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf 's "The Duchess and the Jeweller"
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    A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf 's "The Duchess and the Jeweller"

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    A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf 's "The Duchess and the Jeweller", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateMay 15, 2018
    ISBN9781535846219
    A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf 's "The Duchess and the Jeweller"

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      A Study Guide for Virginia Woolf 's "The Duchess and the Jeweller" - Gale

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      The Duchess and the Jeweller

      Virginia Woolf

      1938

      Introduction

      The Duchess and the Jeweller is a short story by Virginia Woolf, published first in the British edition of Harper's Bazaar in April 1938 and then one month later in its American counterpart. It was reprinted twice after her death, once in the 1944 short-story collection A Haunted House and Other Short Stories and again in the 1985 anthology The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf. It tells the story of a morning and afternoon in the life of Oliver Bacon, once a penniless boy in London who sold stolen dogs to survive, now a fabulously wealthy jeweller at the top of society. One of his clients, a duchess facing massive debt, visits him hoping to sell a handful of pearls; along with the pearls would come an irresistible favor.

      Woolf is best known for her novels and her essay A Room of One's Own, a major contribution to modern feminist thought, but she wrote and published several dozen short stories. Many of them prioritize the narrative mode known as stream of consciousness over more standard features of fiction, such as plot and dialogue. This deceptively simple story is less experimental than most of her shorter work yet functions on several different levels: it is a morality play, a point-of-view experiment, and a critique of social class, among other things. It has also been analyzed by scholars for its anti-Semitic elements, as both a demonstration of contemporary anti-Semitism and a confrontation with it.

      Author Biography

      Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen on January 25, 1882, in an affluent London neighborhood, to a family of proudly intellectual secular humanists with seven other children. Her mother was a much-admired painters' model and her father was a biographer, historian, editor, and critic. Figures from the literary world of the time visited the household frequently, and the family maintained a huge library on the fourth floor, where the children were educated in the classics and English literature.

      Family wealth afforded Woolf a childhood of frequent vacations to the beach and ample time to pursue her interests in literature and butterflies, for example. But from the age of six until she moved out of the house at twenty-three, Woolf was subjected to sexual

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