2. LADY GAGA – G.U.Y
Reference
its references to Greek
mythology
fallen and wounded angel
to be inspired by the work
of Madonna and David
Bowie, in its "cosmic
pansexual playfulness"
3. BOOKS WRITTEN BY VIRGINIA
• One of Virginia's most famous feminist novels is called A Room of One's own. It was first published in
1929. There are many themes in this book but two that stand out are: women's limited access to
education and the history of female writers. In Virginia's opinion there are two things needed for a
woman to write; a woman must have money and a room of her own for her to be able to write.
Around this time Virginia lived in a patriarchal society (basically meaning men were the bosses!) and
women had to rely on men. So Virginia believed if women had financial freedom then they will have
freedom to write. Also she stated that it was impossible for a woman to a room of her own unless
their parents were rich or of high status. Virginia examines previous female writes of history. This
included Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, Anne Finch and many more. She took particular interest in
scholar and feminist, Jane Ellen Harrison.
• Other well known books by Virginia Woolf include: Mrs Dalloway, To the lighthouse, The waves and
one of her last books On a Being Ill
4. VIRGINIA WOOLF QUOTATIONS
“I want to write Novel’s about Silence,
the things people don’t say.”
“Some people go to priests; others to
poetry; I to my friends.”
“Humour is the first of
the gifts to perish in a
foreign tongue.”
“A masterpiece…is something said once
and for all, stated, finished, so that it’s there
complete in the mind.”
“I was in a queer mood, thinking myself
very old: but now I am a woman again-as
I always am when I write.”
“Why are women…so much more
interesting to men than men are to
women?”
**“The connection between
dress and war is not far to seek:
your finest clothes are those you
wear as soldiers.”
“He’s like an express train
running through a tunnel-one
shriek, sparks, smoke and
gas.”
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every
experience of his life, every quality of his
mind is written large in his works.”
5. WOOLF’S IMPACT ON SOCIETY
•Through her writing, whether it be her novels or her journalism etc, she strived to bring women into
the “public sphere” by getting them involved with politics and giving women more of a voice in the
male dominated society.
•Her thesis is that “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
•She was defending women against the accusations that work done by female writers were not good
enough.
•She justified the right of women to be independent and attempted to improve their intellectual
activity in general, in order for them to be independent.
6. WOOLF’S IMPACT ON SOCIETY
•Through her writing, whether it be her novels or her journalism etc, she strived to bring women into
the “public sphere” by getting them involved with politics and giving women more of a voice in the
male dominated society.
•Her thesis is that “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
•She was defending women against the accusations that work done by female writers were not good
enough.
•She justified the right of women to be independent and attempted to improve their intellectual
activity in general, in order for them to be independent.
