against the hypocrisy that, they believed, had marked their parents’ generation in upper class England; they aimed to be uncompromisingly honest in personal and artistic life. For 30 years after her death, Virginia was considered an aesthete and eccentric. This changed in the 1970s – rediscovered by the feminist movement. No university education. Family of intellectuals. Married to Leonard Woolf – a marriage of the minds, no children. Together they ran Hogarth Press. WWII brought pressures for
One of the greatest, most innovative writers of her age. Formed by the ideas and aesthetics of Bloomsbury group. Basis for her political and social convictions. Feminist perspectives emerged as she wrote. Both subtle and radical. Influenced by contemporary painting, strong visual quality of essays and novels. A contemporary addressing her audience. A vivid conversation with the past. A feminist classic: for 30 years after her death-an aesthete. 1970s-rediscovered. The Feminist movement gives her new scrutiny-flexibility of her feminist position. A Room of One's Own. A troubled life on the verge of madness. Creative voice on the verge of madness: emotionally unstable, never making a slightest attempt to hide it. 'madness' as a part of creative process. Any writer is 'mad' to a degree=wouldn't submit to the established conventions of sanity. The role of the
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