Introduction

WORDS IN COMPANY is the blogue of London-based writer

Frances Bingham

- meditations on the strange business of working with words, and where we may find inspiration or encouragement. Written with a dose of idealism – or even enthusiasm – seasoned with irony, righteous indignation, the inevitable whiff of the elegaic.

The thing itself by Liz Mathews (text by Virginia Woolf)

‘Words, English words, are full of echoes, memories, associations; naturally, they’ve been out and about, on people’s lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. …a word is not a single and separate entity, it is part of other words. Indeed, it is not a word until it is part of a sentence. Words belong to each other…’

Craftsmanship, Virginia Woolf, (BBC talk).