James Wood

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815 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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Close Readings · Who’s afraid of realism? ‘Voyage in the Dark’ by Jean Rhys · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

One needed 40 pounds and that had to be paid in gold to the abortionist.

And we will hear the novel's narrator, Anna Morgan, talking about losing her virginity in these terms.

I thought that it had been just like the girls said, except that I hadn't known it would hurt so much.

So, Miranda, I should just get off a certain sort of bee in my bonnet right away, which is that it sort of irritates me that Wolf is so assuredly and safely canonical now, and that Jean Rees, by comparison, even though the two writers were working at the same time...

and that one desperately wants Woolf to have been aware of Rees and to have written about Rees.

As far as I can tell, she didn't.

But despite the fact that these two novelists were writing at the same time, Jean Rees is always slightly to the edge of the canon compared to the properly enshrined perfect modernist that Woolf is.

And that just sort of annoys me a bit.

I don't know if you agree.

Yes.

Well, we'll get in a minute to the sort of earlier biography of Reese.

And because I have you here, I don't want to lose the opportunity of having you talk about those early years, too, and about the entire life.

But just on this question, what do you know about how Reese, I mean, practically speaking, what was Reese's room of one's own?

Where did she write her?

How did she write these books in the 20s and 30s?

I completely agree.

I mean, we'll get to Voyage in the Dark in a minute, and it's actually quite a large gallery of people.

Right from the sort of the stockbroker types to the chorus girls, it's actually, for a short novel, it's actually quite a wide variety of people, including Anna Morgan's stepmother from Yorkshire.

Not to mention, of course, the whole Caribbean background.

But how right that is.

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