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In her 1923 essay ‘Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown’, Virginia Woolf claims that ‘on or about December 1910 human character changed’.1 Via a self-conscious piece of short fiction that chronicles the differences between the representation of human character in the work of Edwardian (pre-modernist) and Georgian (early modernist) writers, Woolf suggests that the various contexts, social relationships and the nature of human beings had transformed: ‘All human relations have shifted — those between masters and servants, husbands and wives, parents and children. And when human relations change, there is at the same time a change in religion, conduct, politics, and literature’.2 The dating of major transformations of the Zeitgeist is tricky and complex; any grand claims about periodization are undercut by a sense of randomness and uncertainty.
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Virginia Woolf, ‘Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown’ (London: Hogarth, 1923), 4.
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Groes, S. (2016). Conclusion: ‘The Futures of Memory’. In: Groes, S. (eds) Memory in the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_44
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