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Вирджиния Вулф. A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas
A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN AND THREE GUINEAS. Virginia Woolf
History of Collins
Life & Times. Mental Health and Creativity
A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas
The Bloomsbury Set
CHAPTER 1fn1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 4
CHAPTER 5
CHAPTER 6
CHAPTER 1
CHAPTER 2
CHAPTER 3
CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES adapted from the Collins English Dictionary
Footnotes. A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN. Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 6
THREE GUINEAS. Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Copyright
About the Publisher
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In 1819, millworker William Collins from Glasgow, Scotland, set up a company for printing and publishing pamphlets, sermons, hymn books, and prayer books. That company was Collins and was to mark the birth of HarperCollins Publishers as we know it today. The long tradition of Collins dictionary publishing can be traced back to the first dictionary William published in 1824, Greek and English Lexicon. Indeed, from 1840 onwards, he began to produce illustrated dictionaries and even obtained a licence to print and publish the Bible.
Soon after, William published the first Collins novel, Ready Reckoner; however, it was the time of the Long Depression, where harvests were poor, prices were high, potato crops had failed, and violence was erupting in Europe. As a result, many factories across the country were forced to close down and William chose to retire in 1846, partly due to the hardships he was facing.
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She is coming, my dove, my dear–
sang in my blood as I stepped quickly along towards Headingley. And then, switching off into the other measure, I sang, where the waters are churned up by the weir:
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