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3.5 stars.
Despite this long form essay having been written almost 100 years ago, it is tragically just as relevant today. Woolf's musings on why women never wrote good poetry, why there was no female Shakespeare and why literature written by women was so sparse still feels relevant. Yes, women have made enormous strides from when she was writing, but so many women are still at the mercy of the patriarchal forces which Woolf outlines in this piece.
I particularly liked her musings on women of the 16th Centu ...more
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One hundred years later, things have moved on a bit. Elegant, if dense, writing.
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