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Virginia Woolf

Professions for Women

This activity contains 3 questions.

What is Woolf’s advice to the women to whom she delivered this speech? What might the “Angel of the House,” the metaphorical rock, and “rooms of your own” represent for professional women of her day?

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Describe Woolf’s style here, focusing in particular on her use of concrete and metaphoric language, as well as the persona she presents. What do you find especially noteworthy about her voice?

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Only in a few fields have professional women today achieved high rank in the same numbers as men. What might Woolf’s observations of seventy years ago contribute to explaining this disparity? Do men continue to view women (and women, indeed, to view themselves) as Woolf describes? To what extent or do you think other factors have come into play?

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