Unsurprisingly in To the Lighthouse, Woolf deliberately included elements of Anna Karenina, thereby illustrating and putting into practice some of the ideas contained in her essay. Measuring books against each other, she suggests, is a way of questioning society and of recalibrating our standard of values. Among other things, she asks “And how does our emotion at different crises of the two books compare? And what must we attribute to the eighteenth century, and what to Russia and the translator?” In effect, what she is doing is to ask readers to use their reading as an anthropological tool. In “How Should One Read a Book?” (1927), the first of three essay versions of this talk, Woolf suggests comparing Clarissa Harlowe to Anna Karenina. While writing To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf took time out to give a talk to a group of Hayes Court schoolgirls.
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