Week 12 Reading Notes A : A Woolf in Sheep's Clothing

A room of one’s own (336-371)

Is an essay comprised about women in Fiction. Yes they argued that women being barred from

places of intellect, we’re not given the opportunity in the nineteenth century or prior, to achieve their

intellectual capabilities. Women were more homemakers and given mindless and tedious tasks or

works. Why men were taught in schools of science and various literature. They were able to explore

works and ideas and expand their own mind in they’re riding intellectually was widely excepted.

However if a woman where to take on this endeavor should be met with harsh criticism and mockery.

Woolf describes the anger of women in the anger of men. Men feel anger for their position being

threatened. And women feel anger for their position not being respected (355). She discovers the writing

of a professor who’s claims stirred an anger in our writer “...To the one phrase, which had rows the

demon; it was the professor statement about the mental, moral and physical inferiority of women.

My heart had let my cheeks had burned. I had flushed with anger. There is nothing specifically

remarkable, however foolish, in that. When does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior

of a little man –…” (356). This thinking is honest and true. Why should anyone be naturally better or

worse than anyone else? Though it is easy to disapprove now, at this time it must have driven women

mad to know that they were

thought of in such a way.

She discovered a thought and question in her research “Why are women judging from this catalog, so

much more interesting to men and men or two women? Curious fact it seemed, in my mind wandered

to picture lives of men who spend their time in writing books about women; whether they were old or

young, married or unmarried, rednosed or humpbacked – so I ponder it until all such frivolous thoughts

were ended by an avalanche of books sliding down on to the desk in front of me. “ (353).

She also explores the idea of what effect has poverty on fiction? What conditions are necessary for

the creation of works of art? “(351)