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Annual conference of the Professional Association of Sociologists in IrelandThis paper
consider s the letters of Nancy Nolan to Leonard Woolf, publisher, political
activist and husband to Virginia Woolf. A fan of Virginia Woolfs essays and
books, she began a long term correspondence with Leonard Woolf long after
Virginia died. The correspondence is archived as  fan mail . This paper
suggests that the contents of these letters could be considered as partly
fan-mail but are an intimate insight into the daily life of a Dublin based
housewife in the decades after World War 2. Nancy Nolan was ambitious for her
children, managed family relationships and economies while creating a life of
her own in and through books. In writing to Woolf, the domestic and the
literary are counter posed.

Anne Byrne

Like A Window opening onto a Blank Wall ; the Letters of a Dublin Housewife to Leonard Woolf. : Annual conference of the Professional Association of Sociologists in IrelandThis paper consider s the letters of Nancy Nolan to Leonard Woolf, publisher, political activist and husband to Virginia Woolf. A fan of Virginia Woolfs essays and books, she began a long term correspondence with Leonard Woolf long after Virginia died. The correspondence is archived as fan mail . This paper suggests that the contents of these letters could be considered as partly fan-mail but are an intimate insight into the daily life of a Dublin based housewife in the decades after World War 2. Nancy Nolan was ambitious for her children, managed family relationships and economies while creating a life of her own in and through books. In writing to Woolf, the domestic and the literary are counter posed.

Anne Byrne

Political Science & Sociology

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Original language	English (Ireland)
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2012
Event	Sociological Association of Ireland, 39th Annual Conference. 2012 - Duration: 12 May 2012 → …

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Conference	Sociological Association of Ireland, 39th Annual Conference. 2012
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Byrne, A. (2012). Like A Window opening onto a Blank Wall ; the Letters of a Dublin Housewife to Leonard Woolf. : Annual conference of the Professional Association of Sociologists in IrelandThis paper consider s the letters of Nancy Nolan to Leonard Woolf, publisher, political activist and husband to Virginia Woolf. A fan of Virginia Woolfs essays and books, she began a long term correspondence with Leonard Woolf long after Virginia died. The correspondence is archived as fan mail . This paper suggests that the contents of these letters could be considered as partly fan-mail but are an intimate insight into the daily life of a Dublin based housewife in the decades after World War 2. Nancy Nolan was ambitious for her children, managed family relationships and economies while creating a life of her own in and through books. In writing to Woolf, the domestic and the literary are counter posed. . Paper presented at Sociological Association of Ireland, 39th Annual Conference. 2012.

Byrne, Anne. / Like A Window opening onto a Blank Wall ; the Letters of a Dublin Housewife to Leonard Woolf. : Annual conference of the Professional Association of Sociologists in IrelandThis paper consider s the letters of Nancy Nolan to Leonard Woolf, publisher, political activist and husband to Virginia Woolf. A fan of Virginia Woolfs essays and books, she began a long term correspondence with Leonard Woolf long after Virginia died. The correspondence is archived as fan mail . This paper suggests that the contents of these letters could be considered as partly fan-mail but are an intimate insight into the daily life of a Dublin based housewife in the decades after World War 2. Nancy Nolan was ambitious for her children, managed family relationships and economies while creating a life of her own in and through books. In writing to Woolf, the domestic and the literary are counter posed. Paper presented at Sociological Association of Ireland, 39th Annual Conference. 2012.

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Byrne, A 2012, ' Like A Window opening onto a Blank Wall ; the Letters of a Dublin Housewife to Leonard Woolf. : Annual conference of the Professional Association of Sociologists in IrelandThis paper consider s the letters of Nancy Nolan to Leonard Woolf, publisher, political activist and husband to Virginia Woolf. A fan of Virginia Woolfs essays and books, she began a long term correspondence with Leonard Woolf long after Virginia died. The correspondence is archived as fan mail . This paper suggests that the contents of these letters could be considered as partly fan-mail but are an intimate insight into the daily life of a Dublin based housewife in the decades after World War 2. Nancy Nolan was ambitious for her children, managed family relationships and economies while creating a life of her own in and through books. In writing to Woolf, the domestic and the literary are counter posed. ', Paper presented at Sociological Association of Ireland, 39th Annual Conference. 2012, 12/05/12.

Like A Window opening onto a Blank Wall ; the Letters of a Dublin Housewife to Leonard Woolf. : Annual conference of the Professional Association of Sociologists in IrelandThis paper consider s the letters of Nancy Nolan to Leonard Woolf, publisher, political activist and husband to Virginia Woolf. A fan of Virginia Woolfs essays and books, she began a long term correspondence with Leonard Woolf long after Virginia died. The correspondence is archived as fan mail . This paper suggests that the contents of these letters could be considered as partly fan-mail but are an intimate insight into the daily life of a Dublin based housewife in the decades after World War 2. Nancy Nolan was ambitious for her children, managed family relationships and economies while creating a life of her own in and through books. In writing to Woolf, the domestic and the literary are counter posed. . / Byrne, Anne.
2012. Paper presented at Sociological Association of Ireland, 39th Annual Conference. 2012.

Research output: Contribution to conference (Published) › National Refereed Conference Paper

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Byrne A. Like A Window opening onto a Blank Wall ; the Letters of a Dublin Housewife to Leonard Woolf. : Annual conference of the Professional Association of Sociologists in IrelandThis paper consider s the letters of Nancy Nolan to Leonard Woolf, publisher, political activist and husband to Virginia Woolf. A fan of Virginia Woolfs essays and books, she began a long term correspondence with Leonard Woolf long after Virginia died. The correspondence is archived as fan mail . This paper suggests that the contents of these letters could be considered as partly fan-mail but are an intimate insight into the daily life of a Dublin based housewife in the decades after World War 2. Nancy Nolan was ambitious for her children, managed family relationships and economies while creating a life of her own in and through books. In writing to Woolf, the domestic and the literary are counter posed. . 2012. Paper presented at Sociological Association of Ireland, 39th Annual Conference. 2012.