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This is a 5 page paper describing the challenges and limitations faced by women writers in the early 20th century. Women writers of the late 19th and early 20th century were faced with many limitations and challenges in completing their work. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) does a great deal to explain the challenges and roles of women writers within her work “A Room of One’s Own” in which she gives first hand observations of limitations imposed upon past, present and future women writers. In addition to these observations by Woolf, characters within her works such as those found in “To the Lighthouse” also reveal the constant struggle and conflict women must overcome to obtain their own identity. Other women writers during this time, such as Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) also demonstrate the frustrations found within the professional woman in defining her role. Lehmann’s character of Olivia Curtis in her works “Invitation to the Waltz” and “The Weather in the Streets” also reveal the author’s own feelings about the pre-defined roles of women in society and the challenges women face overcoming or dealing with these roles in order to meet their artistic, professional or emotional needs.
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challenges in completing their work. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) does a great deal to explain the challenges and roles of women writers within her work "A Room of Ones Own" in
which she gives first hand observations of limitations imposed upon past, present and future women writers. In addition to these observations by Woolf, characters within her works such as those
found in "To the Lighthouse" also reveal the constant struggle and conflict women must overcome to obtain their own identity. Other women writers during this time, such as Rosamond Lehmann
(1901-1990) also demonstrate the frustrations found within the professional woman in defining her role. Lehmanns character of Olivia Curtis in her works "Invitation to the Waltz" and "The Weather in
the Streets" also reveal the authors own feelings about the pre-defined roles of women in society and the challenges women face overcoming or dealing with these roles in order to
meet their artistic, professional or emotional needs. One of the best demonstrations of the challenges and limitations of women writers in the early
twentieth century can be found in the works of British author Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). In Woolfs "A Room of Ones Own", she begins by explaining to the readers that there
is basically no place for an intellectual woman within the university environment. On a visit to a university, Woolf is told she is "to walk on the gravel in the
park" as the turf is reserved for the Fellows and the Scholars and that she is not allowed to enter the university library "unless accompanied by a Fellow or a
letter of introduction" (Fucci; Woolf, Room, 9, 12). Woolf quickly realizes that there is basically no place for a woman among the world of intellectual men especially within an educational
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