Why should you read Virginia Woolf? - Iseult Gillespie
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What if William Shakespeare had a sister who matched his imagination, his wit, and his way with words? Would she have gone to school and set the stage alight? In her essay "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf argues that this would have been impossible. She concocts a fictional sister who's stuck at home, snatching time to scribble a few pages before she finds herself betrothed and runs away. While her brother finds fame and fortune, she remains abandoned and anonymous. In this thought experiment, Woolf demonstrates the tragedy of genius restricted, and looks back through time for hints of these hidden histories. She wrote, "When one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling he...
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What if William Shakespeare had a sister who matched his imagination, his wit, and his way with words? Would she have gone to school and set the stage alight? In her essay "A Room of One's Own," Virginia Woolf argues that this would have been impossible. She concocts a fictional sister who's stuck at home, snatching time to scribble a few pages before she finds herself betrothed and runs away. While her brother finds fame and fortune, she remains abandoned and anonymous. In this thought experiment, Woolf demonstrates the tragedy of genius restricted, and looks back through time for hints of these hidden histories. She wrote, "When one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling he...
