the line for home: Virginia Woolf

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5.1.10

homes and lunatic asylums

painting of Virginia Woolf by Roger Fry.

In an essay originally entitled 'Behind the Bars' Virginia Woolf describes "those comfortably padded lunatic asylums, which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England”

home: a village or town, a dwelling place, house, abode, the fixed residence of a family or household, the dwelling in which one habitually lives or which one regards as one’s proper abode, the place of one’s dwelling and nurturing, with its associations, with references to the grave or future state, place region or state to which one properly belongs, in which one’s affections centre, where one finds rest, refuge or satisfaction, a place where one’s ancestors dwelt, the seat, centre or native habitat, an institution providing refuge or rest, in games, the place in which one is free from attack, the goal…

(OE 3^rd ed)

5.1.10

homes and lunatic asylums

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