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Woolf is sketching a cultural shift, from brilliance and excess toward discipline and usefulness. The line can be read as a quiet warning that periods of dazzling creativity are often followed by a demand for steadier labor, and it fits a moment when an era, a movement, or even a household has to stop improvising and start keeping order.
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About Virginia Woolf
English writer, 20th-century modernist author
Virginia Woolf was an English writer and a major modernist author of the 20th century. She is especially known for helping to pioneer stream of consciousness narration in fiction. Her work helped shape modern literature through its formal experimentation and attention to inner thought. She is remembered above all for the narrative technique she helped develop, which became influential in later writing.
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Books by Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
An essay on women and writing.