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Woolf’s most famous book is about an upper-class woman’s busy day, sure, but it’s also about the ways in which she is caged by the very expectations that come with her privilege, and it’s counterbalanced by the cultural uneasiness following World War I and the delusions and ultimate suicide of the novel’s other main character, PTSD-ridden Septimus Smith.

The landowners sold the site in 1926 to Septimus Wray, a pleasure garden entrepreneur who began opening the caverns to visitors.

“In particular, fatigue and loss of taste and smell can persist beyond the period of contagion,” Septimus wrote recently.

Some coronavirus symptoms may also last longer than others, said Joshua Septimus, a medical director in the Houston Methodist health-care system.

It’s a novel in verse about a Black woman in Roman Britain and the Roman emperor Septimus Severus.