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A 10 page paper examining the presence of a woman's rights agenda in Virginia Woolf's fiction and essays. The paper concludes that while there is abundant evidence of feminism in Woolf's work, she definitely did not hate men, and sought to portray them as justly as their female counterparts. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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devalued during their authors lifetime. Her astonishingly fresh viewpoints struck a chord for womens rights in three basic ways. First, Woolf insisted in all her works -- essays, novels, and
short stories -- on a womans right to have her own opinions and to live her own life. Second, she stressed the importance of the inner life, the inner sensibility,
which is often a way women have of expressing their individuality in a male-dominated world. And third, Woolf was brave enough to live out her convictions in her own life
and bring these insights and experiences into her work. Virginia Woolf was a member of a group of writers known as The Bloomsbury Group, named after a residential section of
London where Woolf and her husband Leonard lived in the early decades of this century. According to Kathleen McCoy and Judith Harlan, "[Woolfs] group rejected the restraints of propriety and
the sexual prudery of Victorian society. They were avant garde in art and literature and remarkably free in their interlocking personal lives. Marital fidelity was not honored, and several members
of the group were bisexual" (McCoy and Harlan, 254). This is obviously pretty heady stuff for the 1920s, and McCoy and Harlan observe that Woolfs group "came under criticism
. . . for the perceived immorality of their personal lives" (McCoy & Harlan, 254). In addition to being extremely unconventional sexually, Woolf also exhibited a tendency toward mental breakdowns
throughout her life. Todays psychotherapists, reading her memoir "22 Hyde Park Gate", would have little trouble in understanding the cause. In this work Woolf unabashedly admits that she had an
incestuous relationship with her half-brother George Duckworth (who was some years older), and moreover, that her sister Vanessa did as well. The tone of the piece is extremely funny
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