The following text is adapted from Virginia Woolf’s 1919 novel Night and Day.
In times gone by, Mrs. Hilbery had known all the poets, all the novelists. These being now either dead or secluded in their infirm glory, she made her house a meeting-place for her own relations, to whom she would lament the passing of the great days of the nineteenth century, when every department of letters and art was represented in England by two or three illustrious names.
In times gone by, Mrs. Hilbery had known all the poets, all the novelists. These being now either dead or secluded in their infirm glory, she made her house a meeting-place for her own relations, to whom she would lament the passing of the great days of the nineteenth century, when every department of letters and art was represented in England by two or three illustrious names.