WRIT 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Leonard Woolf, Three Guineas, Pupa

• School: University of Victoria
• Department: Writing
• Course: WRIT 109
• Professor: Friesen Patrick

Document Summary

Family: importance of older sister vanessa, her father had 2 kids from irst marriage, 4 from is second wife, and she already had 3. Total of 9 kids: older half brothers sexually abused virginia and vanessa. Connections with plath; writer"s life; both had mental diiculties; both committed suicide both within a struggle for women"s rights; both writers and in the. 4 areas to look at: woolf"s sexuality and that of her friends, woolf"s health issues, physical and mental, woolf and women"s rights, woolf"s books/writing process. Friends as primary social unit; various relationships/sexualities in her group. Her mental problems were partly inherited, partly a result of early sexual abuse. Often had lu or cold, jumpy hear, headaches. Attacks included voices; got worse with age. C) wrote directly about women"s issues, especially in three guineas (on being despised. Professions for women) and a room of one"s own.