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This 5 page paper gives a detailed overview of Virginia Woolf's life, as well as giving an analysis of how her life's experiences are depicted in her literary works. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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themes center around the battle of the sexes and the necessity of a woman to have her own space, both intellectually and financially.(thesis) The remarkable life of Virginia Woolf provided
this incredible writer with the tools necessary to give the world a new perspective on the issue of womens rights. Virginia Woolf was born in Britain to a family
whose chief work was publishing. She was surrounded by literary genius and it is little wonder that she would grow up to become a writer. Her father, quite the educated
man, determined to teach Virginia at home, since most girls were not allowed to attend school (or were frowned upon for attending). Her home life was not a good
one, though. Scholars state that she suffered a series of emotional setbacks. Sexually molested by her half brother, Virginia, who was a teenager at the time, also had to deal
with the death of her mother, her sister and her dear brother, Toby in 1906(Virginia Woolf). Given this series of events it is little wonder that she suffered a mental
breakdown. She managed to recover and later married Leonard Woolf who was a type of ambassador to Sri Lanka(Virginia Woolf). Three years later, so and so states, her first book,
The Voyage Out would be published, followed by Night and Day, and Jacobs Room, which was based in part on the life of her beloved brother, Toby. What Virginia brought
to the publishing world was a womans voice. Before this, women had struggled in underground press groups, managing to print out a very limited amount of their manuscripts. However, with
the backing of her publishing family, it was assured that Virginias works would see the light of day. The problem remained that no previously used techniques seemed to purvey the
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