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Characters of "A room of one's own" - Coggle Diagram
Characters of "A room of one's own"
The narrator
She refers to herself only as “I”
"call me Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael or by any name you please—it is not a matter of any importance"
A universal voice
She guides the audience (and reader) visually and intellectually through a series of experiences in which she learns how women have been poor and why
Mary Beton
The narrator's aunt
She left 500 hundred pounds a year upon her death for her niece's financial independence
She died by falling from a horse
Judith Shakeaspare
The imagined sister of William Shakespeare
"She was as adventurous, as imaginative, to see the world as he was. But she was not sent to school."
Commits suicide
Trapped at home
Pressured by her family into an early marriage
"Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the cross-roads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here to-night, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed."
Female Writers
Jane Austen
Novels: without hate, bittenes, fear and protest
She hid her manuscripts
George Eliot
Escaped to a secluded village where she lived with a married man under the shadow of the world disapproval
The Bronte sisters
Charlotte Bronte
She left her story to attend to some personal grievance.
She wrote out of anger and insecurity
Aphra Behn
1st Englishwoman known to earn her living by writing
Lady of Winchilsea
Indignation against the position of women