Reading Quentin Bell’s superb biography of Virginia Woolf.
She decried the literary “Underworld” whose “ambition was to be on the winning side. . . When Conrad published Victory, Virginia found it hailed by the Underworld as a masterpiece. . . But when she expressed her doubts. . .there was a kind of uneasy shift of opinion–perhaps Conrad was going out, perhaps the moment had come to disparage him.”