Inheritance his wife would probably not have written a novel at all.įor money guaranteed not just time but intellectual liberty. Her husband, Leonard Woolf, believed that without the aid of her Her imaginative voyages into the waveringly lighted depths of "Mrs.ĭalloway" and "To the Lighthouse" were partly owed to a freedom from the literal daily need of voyaging out - to the shop or the office or even the nursery. Woolf would know which end of the cradle to stir." Yet no one was more aware of the price of unworldliness than Virginia Woolf. He literary critic Queenie Leavis, who had been born into the British lower middle class and reared three children while writing and editing and teaching, thought Virginia Woolf a preposterous representative of real women's lives: "There Virginia Woolf / By Claudia Roth Pierpont The Voyage Inįorums: Your comments on Virginia Woolf are welcome in the Women as Icons forums. Heroine Worship: Virginia Woolf, The Voyage In
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