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Dalloway Context (1925) - Coggle Diagram
Dalloway Context (1925)
Historical Context
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War (Post War Attitudes)
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Loss - 880,000 British forced died (6% of the adult male population and 12.5% of those serving). 1921 census recorded 109 women for every 100 men.
Colonial Attitudes - British Empire in state of decline after war e.g. Italy starting to question Britain's rule.
Educational Reform
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Harriet Martineau - social reformer cited as the first female sociologist. Educational reform needed for marriage not not be the object of life
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Harriet Taylor Mill (influential during the first half of 1800s) more radical than her husband John Stuart Mill in teh degrading effect of women's economic depedence on men.
Authorial Context
Bloomsbury Group
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Unopopular opinions against military figures e.g. Nelson, Gordon, Havelock - mentioned in novel
Writers, inetllectuals, philosphers, artists, highly educated, upper class backgrounds but can be seen as radicals/liberals
Life of Woolf
Childhood
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Parents encouraged free thinking, literature and connection
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Education - KCL (Greek, German, Latin) Remained educated at home while brothers were at Cambridge.
Mental Illness
Reportely heard birds singing in Greek after one of her early suicide attempts where she jumped from a Window.
PTSD - Woolf probably suffering trauma from sexual abuse from her half brothers. She was institutionalised after the death of her fatehr in 1904.
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Personal life - affaoir with Vita Sackville-West in 1922 - two remained friends after end of romantic affair.
1929 - A Room of ones own - explores a women's role in society - neccesary requirements to produce literature as a woman.
Mental Illness - Woolf critiques the tactlessness of the medical proffession (e.g. she was prescribed plenty of rest and rich food)
Literary Context
The Golden Bough - Sir James Frazer 1890 depicts ancient mythology and gathering of religious systems historically in an anthropological study.
Societal Perception from Male reviewers at the time - "Woolf was perceived as an overly precious, class-bound, minor figure"
Big Thinkers
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woolf praised Sterne and Austen for having being interested 'things themselves; in character itself; in the book itself' - also first users of Free indirect discourse
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Other female writers
Mary Cholomondeley - Red Pottage (1899) Mocks religious hypocrisy and narrowness of country life, was denounced from a London Pulpit as immoral
Edith Wharton (popular in the 1920s) - argues that Women endured unhappiness as a result of their limited position in society and the inadequacy of their marriages known for writing unhappy women.
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