The pargiters virginia woolf5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Alongside allusions to social changes such as the women’s suffrage movement, the First World War, and Britain’s shifting class divides, the contemporary political situation in Ireland is mentioned repeatedly in the novel. ![]() 1 Instead, the politics is discernible on a more implicit level in The Years as the portrait of the everyday lives of the Pargiter family is structured loosely around key social and political events of the years in question. The complex modification of Virginia Woolf’s draft novel-essay ‘The Pargiters’ into what was to become the 1937 novel The Years has been well documented, and it is evident that the final edited form avoided much of the overt politics and polemic that characterized its earlier version. ![]()
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