Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Phillis Wheatley, Alice Walker, John Dear
4 Oct 2018
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Women"s restricted access to education, literature, and employment historically. The best woman is intellectually the inferior of the worst man . Oscar browning, history prof at cambridge in woolf"s day (the quote first appears in a biography of browning written by his nephew; it"s not certain ob actually said this) Shakespeare"s plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. What were the conditions in which women lived (woolf 400)\ Brilliant writing is not the product of genius" alone; it is attached to the material conditions of life. What were the conditions in which women lived (woolf 400) Thus, for women to write good fiction, they must have a room of their own. Meaning: time, space, reception and: money to support themselves. It was impossible for any woman past, present, or to come to have the genius of shakespeare . It would have been impossible for any woman to have written the plays of.
