being kissed under a haystack by a farmer's son. Fifth Essay More detail on Kitty's awkward closeness with her teacher Lucy Craddock, Miss Craddock's own frustrated academic hopes, and the reaction of male academics to intellectual women. Miss Craddock has another less pretty and more studious pupil named Nelly Hughes, of the family who in the novel are called "the Robsons." Fifth Chapter Similar to the scene of Kitty's visit to the Robsons (here changed from "the Hughes" to "the Brooks"), who are determined that Nelly will succeed academically. Kitty enjoys sharing Yorkshire roots with the mother, and more detail is given on her attraction to the son of the family. The chapter ends with Kitty determined to leave Oxford and become a farmer's wife. Sixth Essay Discusses the genteel feminine ideal to which Kitty and her mother must aspire, and contrasts it with the sincere respect for women of the working-class Mr. Brook. Ends in praise of Joseph Wright, a real-life scholar whose collaboration with his wife Woolf admired. References Further reading Radin, Grace (1982). Virginia Woolf's the Years: The Evolution of a Novel, University of Tennessee Press. Snaith, Anna (2012). "Introduction", The Years, Cambridge University Press: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf. External links The novel online at the University of Adelaide library Novelist Nuala Casey reflects on The Years on the London Fictions website 1937 British novels Hogarth Press books Modernist novels Novels by Virginia Woolf Novels set in England