Sitting Bee: “In Kew Gardens by Virginia Woolf we have the theme of passion, desire, love, regret, paralysis, letting go, uncertainty, connection and humanity … there are sections that have the feel of stream of consciousness and after reading the story the reader realizes just how important the setting of the story is. Here are a couple of excellent analyses of the story: Though it’s one of Woolf’s best known stories, and one of the most anthologized, it’s also one of her most elusive. It’s considered modernist, as it favors the capture of moments rather than revolving around a tight plot. “Kew Gardens” is titled after the famous gardens of London and takes place on a July day. It later appeared in another collection of the authors stories, A Haunted House and Other Short Stories (1944), after Woolf’s death. “Kew Gardens” is one of Virginia Woolf‘s earliest short stories, written around 1917 and published in her first collection of fiction, Monday or Tuesday (1921).
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