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A Sketch of the Past is an autobiographical essay
Essay

An essay is usually a short piece of writing. It is often written from an author's personal Perspective . Essays can be literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author....
 written by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an England novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literature literature figures of the twentieth century....
 in 1939. It was written as a break from writing her biography
Biography

A biography is a description of someone's life, usually published in the form of a book or essay, or in some other form, such as a film. An autobiography is a biography by the same person it is about....
 of Roger Fry
Roger Fry

Roger Eliot Fry was an England artist and an art critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury group. Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, as he matured as a critic he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism....
, English
England

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 artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
 and critic
Critic

The word critic comes from the Greek language ' , "able to discern", which in turn derives from the word ' , meaning a person who offers reasoned judgment or analysis, value judgment, interpretation, or observation....
, and fellow member of The Bloomsbury Group
Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group was an England collectivity of friends and relatives who lived in or near London during the first half of the twentieth century....
. It was later edited and posthumously published by Leonard Woolf
Leonard Woolf

Leonard Sidney Woolf was a noted British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant, but perhaps now best known as the widower of author Virginia Woolf....
 and now can be found in Moments of Being, a collection of her autobiographical writing. Woolf's youth was shadowed by series of emotional shocks. Gerald Duckworth, her half-brother, sexually abused her.






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A Sketch of the Past is an autobiographical essay
Essay

An essay is usually a short piece of writing. It is often written from an author's personal Perspective . Essays can be literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author....
 written by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an England novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literature literature figures of the twentieth century....
 in 1939. It was written as a break from writing her biography
Biography

A biography is a description of someone's life, usually published in the form of a book or essay, or in some other form, such as a film. An autobiography is a biography by the same person it is about....
 of Roger Fry
Roger Fry

Roger Eliot Fry was an England artist and an art critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury group. Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, as he matured as a critic he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism....
, English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
 and critic
Critic

The word critic comes from the Greek language ' , "able to discern", which in turn derives from the word ' , meaning a person who offers reasoned judgment or analysis, value judgment, interpretation, or observation....
, and fellow member of The Bloomsbury Group
Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group was an England collectivity of friends and relatives who lived in or near London during the first half of the twentieth century....
. It was later edited and posthumously published by Leonard Woolf
Leonard Woolf

Leonard Sidney Woolf was a noted British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant, but perhaps now best known as the widower of author Virginia Woolf....
 and now can be found in Moments of Being, a collection of her autobiographical writing. Woolf's youth was shadowed by series of emotional shocks. Gerald Duckworth, her half-brother, sexually abused her. In 'Sketch of the Past' (1939) she wrote: "I can remember the feel of his hands going under my clothes; going firmly and steadily lower and lower, I remember how I hoped that he would stop; how I stiffened and wriggled as his hand approached my private parts. But he did not stop."