Today I bought another Wednesday edition of The Guardian to read the
booklet on Virginia Woolf ... contains the speech made by
Virginia Woolf in October 20 & 26 1928 ... Woolf was a striking woman meaning
she was in a modern sense good looking .. and Woolf gave talks to the
University Societies at Cambridge University
Women's Colleges
of Girton and Newnham listing for her banner ... Women and Fiction ...
I have read her book: "Mrs Dalloway" and I recommend it to all students of
literature as it has a wonderfully poetic flow of language known as
stream of consciousness and she gave her speeches to Cambridge University
Women she was a forerunner in the Feminist Literary Movement ... Its an
amusing comment that Kate Mosse makes about whether men drinking wine
and women drinking water .. it seems to be overtly sexist and biased in the
favour of men she makes the point that every Elizabethan man could
write a sonnet unlike this so called
sister of Shakespeare known as "Judith" who could not write a
word.
Its interesting to compare and contrast the feminist literary movement since those
days of the great Virginia Woolf making our paths straight in the latter half of the twenty century, we are all truly grateful for ... and now we are firmly embedded in the 21st Century we can write
Sonnets and can write more than one word ... in fact millions of words ... as women
writers ..
Women are poorer than men ... so Woolf and her translator quote ... that is still
true today .. we still havent been paid the salary that men receive and we are
all the poorer for it ... we cannot easily buy property even though we have a legal
right so to do, we cannot do a lot that men do even though in law its possible,
in life it isnt probable.
We are indebted to Woolf and Austen - George Eliot - and the Brontes for paving the
way to our current success in writing and working as women in a man's world of success.
As women we have borne - bred - washed - taught 1,623,000,000 human beings
at present in existence ....
After 1880 married women were allowed legally to possess and own property in England.
in 1919 women were allowed to vote ... some 2,00 women are capable of earning over
£500 annually one way or another so there's progress for us all.
I would like to die a millionaire! That's my comment not Woolf's ... outstanding
speech ... happy reading ... keep on reading ...
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