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...Virginia Woolf published A Room of One's Own in 1929. It remains the best book about the situation of women, which says much for the perpetual pertinence of art, and little for the mutability of men and social politics. "There is no mark on the wall," she wrote, "to measure the precise height of women," and, in the absolute sense, she is still right. The deepest impact of the women's movement is intangible. Some of feminism's greatest advances are revealed in the everyday auguries of family, home and job; some of its greatest power has come...
...Diary, vol. 4, by Virginia Woolf...
...premise is safe and sound. The unconscious breeds symbols and images; art is the unconscious made visible, and dreams are the bedtime stories we tell ourselves before we wake. Who then could feign indifference to the dreams of artists? Virginia Woolf recalled a nightmare in A Sketch of the Past: "I dreamt I was looking in a glass when a horrible face-the face of an animal-suddenly showed over my shoulder." The visitation was, she said, her persistent "looking glass shame," and in a fantasy of a haunted house she later wrote, "Death was the glass! Death was between...
...could happen to anyone, except that Woolf's well-documented life is an open invitation to the avid psychospeculator. The intermittently mad author tells how, as a young girl, she was sexually used by an older half Leon brother. Her emotional ties to her father were so strong that a few weeks after his death, Woolf asserted manhood by starting to smoke a pipe. Reflections of beasts have been provoked by far less...
...lust for the trend-setter bunnies. Not that they get anywhere with the fast crowd. No, they must still alone for their occasional outbursts of sarcasm or their lingering interest in science fiction. Predominantly male (but including a few young women who write bad blank verse and read Virginia Woolf), the special-interest partisans are the hope and promise of their generation...