Reconstructing virginia woolf’s feminism

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This paper examines the feministic views of Virginia Woolf in view of the literary Victorian legacy she inherited.

It explores some of the many precursors Woolf had, and focuses on the necessity of examining Woolf’s claimed status as the initiator of feminist literary criticism.

Related conjectures are reviewed to avoid putting matters into a false perspective.

The paper employs biographical and historical approaches.

The paper also traces some expressions of the change that characterized the Victorian attitude towards women and towards the role they played in the national issues.

An inevitable consequence was thus a change in the nature of the relation between the sexes, and a feeling was persistent that a new start ought to be made, in politics and in society, as well as in art and literature.