“Jane Austen wrote like that until the end of her days. ‘How she was able to effect all this,’ her nephew writes in his memoir, ‘is surprising, for she had no separate study to repair to, and most of the work must have been done in the general sitting room, subject to all kinds ofContinue reading “Virginia Woolf: How Jane Austen worked”
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Virginia Woolf: Homage to those who went before
Many unsung women are responsible for the benefits women enjoy today.
Virginia Woolf: Women could make money by writing
Women progressed once they could make money by writing.
Virginia Woolf: Elizabethan tombstones
In centuries past, women were burdened with many children and had no opportunity to write.
Virginia Woolf: "women minister to men"
“Sir, a woman’s composing is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.’”
Virginia Woolf: to write a work of genius
…to write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty.
Virginia Woolf: If Shakespeare had had a sister…
Any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself
Virginia Woolf: Why did no woman write that extraordinary literature?
[Woman] dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger
Virginia Woolf ..when womanhood ceases to be protected
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation