Seeing and Being Seen
Penelope Fitzgerald: Humbert Wolfe, 19 March 1998
Harlequin in Whitehall: A Life of Humbert Wolfe
by Philip Bagguley.
Nyala, 439 pp., £24.50, May 1997,0 9529376 0 3 Show More
by Philip Bagguley.
Nyala, 439 pp., £24.50, May 1997,
“... across my tired head – lies with those blackberry eyes shut in that sulphurous cavernous face. Philip Bagguley refers to (without quoting) these words more than once, marvelling at their unkindness. Woolf passes from mild contempt to professional interest in the writer’s hidden wound, then comes a chilling dismissal. She won’t think of him ... ”