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THE EVOLUTION & FUTURE of WOMEN'S WRITING in Virginia Woolf's…
THE EVOLUTION & FUTURE of WOMEN'S WRITING
in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
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LETTERS :pen: :unlock:
SECRATIVE NOVELS :pen: :unlock:
POETRY :pen: :lock:
ANDROGYNOUS MIND :pen: :lock:
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writing with a mind similar to Shakespeare
"is naturally creative, incandescent and undivided" CH 6
UNCONSCIOUS OF SEX :lock: :pen:
"she wrote as a woman, ‘but as a woman who has forgotten that she is a woman, so that her pages were full of that curious sexual quality which comes only when sex is unconscious of itself." CH 5
Way to get here...
Money & a physical and mental room of ones own :!!:
"Poetry ought to have a mother as well as a father." CH. 6
Give her 100 years and a room of her own and...
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"and she will write a better book one of these days. She will be a poet" CH 5
Poetry facilitates creativity and language empowerment
Relates to Cixous
Writing in the shared space of a living room
Ex.: Jane Austen... hid her manuscript when people walked in
One of first acceptable ways women are able to write
Correspondance not really fiction
"Letters did not count. A woman might write letters while she was sitting by her father’s sick-bed. She could write them by the fire whilst the men talked without disturbing them" CH. 4