Did we all know? another V

[Mark Kohut]

that Virginia Woolf wrote a very early [before 1908] short, short story--4
pages--
called "The Mysterious Case of Miss V." ?

One can only imagine its possible influence on V of V with this leap of
deep associative connection,  sea-changed mightily within TRP:

it is barely more than a sketch, told by a narrator
we presume is (like) the author...about the kind of lightly noticed but
ignored women
without husband or family in towns who are barely 'seen"---if they don't
create a full social self---although they are noticed around town until
someone notices they haven't been seen lately.

The narrator has that experience and decides to find out where she lives
and visit.
No further spoilers from me.

Socially, about 'invisible' women in England at the time; one might also
get pretentious
and argue it is about the 'invisible' Feminine in the West----but I doubt
young Virginia was
as pretentious as a pretentious lit crit manqué can be. She did not really
feel the deep pain of
a patriarchal West until WW1, her diaries suggest.

This early, probably simply human and budding feminist themes.
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