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by Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf, giving a lecture on women and fiction, tells her audience she is not sure if the topic should be what women are like; the fiction women write; the fiction written about women; or a combination of the three. Instead, she has come up with "one minor point--a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." She says she will use a fictional narrator whom she calls Mary Beton as her alter ego to relate how her thoughts on the lecture mingled with her daily life.

A week ago, the narrator crosses a lawn at the fictional Oxbridge university, tries to enter the library, and passes by the chapel. She is intercepted at each station and reminded that women are not allowed to do such things without accompanying…

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Posted By lynah l #101003 at Aug 15, 2009 4:34 PM

Anon

I am a PhD student; I am working on the theory of anonymity in Virgnia Woolf's works. I am interested in her last unpublished essay "Anon". If anyone can help me finding critcs about it
thanks in advance

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