Literary Style of Virginia Woolf

In her book A Room of One's Own, Woolf makes it clear that there is a close relationship between the position of women in society and their ability to express themselves in fiction. Fiction may come from within, but it is also dependent on certain modes of thought, on ways of dealing with and relating to one's environment, and on how one views oneself in relation to the rest of society. Woolf states that a woman will not be able to write fiction unless she has money and a room of her own (A Room of One's Own 4). There is a degree of independence of spirit in those who achieve these two external freedoms. In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf was delivering a series of lectures at Newnham and Girton on the subje

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ating a literature under such circumstances, and even her own case is just evidence of the degree to which circumstances count. Woolf's approach to the issue of women and fiction was firmly grounded in a general theory of literature which she also expounded: She argued that the writer was the product of her or his historical circumstances, and that material conditions were of crucial importance. Secondly, she claimed that these material circumstances had a profound effect on the psychological aspects of writing, and that they could be seen to influence the nature of the creative work itself (Barrett 5). The writer is not an abstract but a real person who must make a living in this world, and therefore material conditions are important. Material conditions can be influenced by writing--the writer who can make a living has those conditions affected--and a failure to provide the necessary material conditions can prevent a writer from writing or force her to marry and commit herself to a domestic life as a way of surviving. MichFlle Barrett writes, In considering the effect of women's social situation on their writing Virginia Woolf stresses the important differences in the opportunities open for women of different social clas
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