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Facing Life as We Have Known It: Virginia Woolf and the Women's Co-operative Guild.
- Source :
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Literature & History . Autum2014, Vol. 23 Issue 2, p18-34. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- This article explores Leonard and Virginia Woolf's early interactions with the Women's Co-operative Guild and supplies a contextualised analysis of Virginia Woolf's preface to Life as We Have Known It (1931). Written to introduce a volume of autobiographical sketches by Co-operative Guildswomen and published in a variant form in the Yale Review, this essay has generated conflicting debate in Woolf studies. In this article I argue that the essay fictionalises Virginia Woolf's relationship with the Guild, concealing her familiarity with Guild activities to better engage an anticipated middle-class readership and promote frank interrogation of class prejudice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *WOMEN
20TH century British history
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03061973
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Literature & History
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 99178276
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.7227/LH.23.2.2