Thursday, May 28, 2015

Virginia Woolf's quotation about women

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
















Virginia Woolf


born :in Kensington, Middlesex, England, The United Kingdom
January 25, 1882

died :28 March 1941 (aged 59)
          River Ouse, near Lewes, Sussex, England

gender :female


genre :Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

About this author

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."


What do you think about this quotation ?
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” 

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