Summary

Virginia starts a publishing company, Hogarth Press, through which she releases Vita’s work as well as her own. Lina, in Crete, researches the “ancient rights of women” (206). She writes to Eugenia, discussing the cross-cultural nature of Greece. In her reply, Eugenia informs Lina that the police have been searching for her. Hogarth Press publishes a poem by Nancy Cunard that focuses on “the phenomenon of viewing the same thing from different angles” (207). Gertrude Stein writes an experimental novel called The Making of Americans; she later gives a series of lectures meant to explain her novel. Eileen builds her own house, which she calls E.1027. Natalie translates Gertrude’s book into French, referring to it as “a portrait of its time” (212). Virginia, during a lecture, encourages young women to read biographies.

Chapter 18 focuses on Berthe Cleyrergue, a young French woman who meets Djuna...