virginia woolfs vision
Virginia Woolf's Vision
Almost sixty-five years have lapsed sinee Virginia Woolf spoke at Newnham and Girton colleges on the subject
of women and fiction. Her remarkable words are preserved for future generations of women in A Room of One's
Own. This essay is the "first manifesto of the modern feminist movement" (Samuelson), and has been called "a
notable preamble to a kind of feminine Declaration of Independence" (Muller 34). Woolf writes that her modest
goal for …
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