New Criticism approach to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, was set in a time period shortly after World War I. An omniscient narrator narrates the novel and it gives the reader response full access of what is happening in the minds of the characters from different points of views. In the …
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway & The Woman Question It was common for women writers to address the so-called woman question intheir works during the 19th and 20th centuries. This is true of one of the thewell-known authors, Virginia Woolf, whose life spanned from the end of the Victorians to the start of the modern era. …
[…] a Devil on’t the Woman damns the Poet. — Aphra Behn, Preface to The Lucky Chance Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was not the first woman writer; neither was she the only woman writer of her day. But Aphra Behn holds the singular distinction of being the first professional woman writer in the English language. That’s …
