Virginia Woolf: How Jane Austen worked
“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,… Read More
“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,… Read More
Many unsung women are responsible for the benefits women enjoy today. Read More
Women progressed once they could make money by writing. Read More
In centuries past, women were burdened with many children and had no opportunity to write. Read More
"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.’” Read More
...to write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty. Read More
Any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself Read More
[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 Read More
Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation Read More