For next week, I've decided to institute some changes in your reading schedule for A Room of One's Own . Chapter 4 needs to be read by Friday of next week, Jan. 25 instead of by Tuesday. Some questions will accompany it to help direct your reading. Here are a few of them below, some borrowed from a British Lit course: What is the general focus of chapter 4? What criticisms does Woolf make of Lady Winchelsea's poetry? What is her purpose here? How does Woolf trace the history of women's writing from the eighteenth century onwards? Why was the novel the main genre for female writers in that period? What contrast between Jane Austen / Emily Bronte and Charlotte Bronte does Woolf make? What limitations did Austin and Emily Bronte reject that Charlotte Bronte was unable to reject? Woolf discusses the "newness" of the novel, its suitability for women writers. To what extent does Woolf...
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