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CENTRE DE RECHERCHES ANGLO- AMERICAINES Tropismes L 'ERRANCE Numéro 5 publié avec le concours du Centre National des Lettres Université Paris -X 1991 Walking, women and writing : Virginia Woolf as flaneuse Tre first part of my title is not only meant to allude to the questions Woolf raises all the time, in her novels and in her essays, about the relations between women and writing, art and sex, fiction and femininity, and to the way in which she has been taken up asa key source for enlightenment on such issues ; "Walking, women and writing” is also intended to recall the expression "wine, women and song". Not to suggest that the pleasures of wine are replaced for Woolf by the perhaps less obvious pleasures of the obligatory constitutional : after all, it is she who, having experienced the differences in dining facilities between two "Oxbridge" colleges, one for each sex, demands

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