PROFESSIONS FOR WOMEN Virginia Woolf By Rachel Chae

VIRGINIA WOOLF v Born in 25, January 1882 in London v Modernist writers v Both parents widowed v Three full siblings and four half-siblings. v Victorian Literary Society Sir Leslie Stephan Julia Prinsep Stephen

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Leonard Woolf Dreadnought Hoax

HOGARTH PRESS

MENTAL ILLNESS v Mother’s death Her first nervous breakdowns v At age 22, Father’s death made her almost institutionalized tried to commit suicide v Attack from Germans depression v At age 59 commit suicide

HER WORKS 19 v A room of one’s own v Moments of Being v A Haunted House and Other Short Stories v To the lighthouse v Flush v Orlando v Women and Writing v Mrs. Dalloway’s Party : A Short Story v Night and Day v Mrs. Dalloway v The Waves v The Voyage Out v Jacob’s Room v Between the Acts v Monday or Tuesday v The Complete v Three Guineas Shorter Fiction of v The Years Virginia Woolf Sequence v The Death of the Moth and Other Essays.

WORLD WAR I v 1914~1918 involving Germany, France, Britain, Russia and Austria-Hungary v Germany Russia France v Allies VS Central Powers v In 1917, US joined

WORLD WAR II THE BLITZ

THE VICTORIAN SOCIETY The Upper Class The Middle Class Skilled Class Unskilled Class The Working Class Upper Middle Class Lower Middle Class

SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS

PROFESSION FOR WOMEN v “The Angel in the House” v Conclude with questions to future generations of women

ESSENTIAL QUESTION v Do you think the 21 st century might have changed if women social class status was higher than men in the beginning of life? v “What obstacles are there for a woman rather than a man? ” v What obstacles are there for a man rather than a woman? v Does women deserve to have equal rights as men?

BIB. v "Virginia's Last Note to Leonard, " Virginia Woolf Web, http: //orlando. jp. org/VWWARC/DAT/lastnote. html, Accessed 23 May 2014. v Lyndall Gordon, Virginia Woolf A Writer's Life (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001), 184. v Phyllis Rose, Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf (Pandora), 120. v "The Papers of Angelica Garnett (nee Bell), " King's College Archive, http: //janus. lib. cam. ac. uk/db/node. xsp? id=EAD%2 FGBR%2 F 0272%2 FPP%2 FAG, Accessed 23 May 2014; Roy Johnson, "Deceived With Kindness, " http: //www. mantex. co. uk/reviews/a-garnett. htm, Accessed 23 May 2014. v Vita Sackville-West, "To Virginia Woolf, January 21, 1926, " Isle of Lesbos, http: //www. sappho. com/letters/vitas-w. html, Accessed 25 May 2014. v Elizabeth Bowen, "The Principle of Her Art Was Joy, " The New York Times, 21 February 1954, http: //www. nytimes. com/books/97/06/08/reviews/woolf-diary. html, Accessed 25 May 2014