Appius and Virginia Pride The only writer to inspire

The only writer to inspire jealousy in Virginia Woolf

Constance Lamb and Judith Burton team up once again

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The plot’s quite complex but Gardner is wonderful at milieu

But her refreshing honesty and humour combine to make her tale all the more harrowing

Appius and Virginia Pride The only writer to inspireA rediscovered work by a lost novelist from the 1930s One of the most inventive novelists of her generation TLS Virginia Hutton embarks upon an experiment. She will take an ape and raise it as a human child. She purchases an infant orangutan and names him Appius. She clothes him, feeds him, and puts him to bed in a cot every night. As Appius grows older, she teaches him to dress himself, to speak, to read, to stand and walk up straight, to eat his