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Ch 2--women in literature
1. general topic of chapter (s)
2. most important section, carries thematic weight, close reading
3. other thematic issues carried over from rest of book
4. compare/contrast with tse
5. problematic passages (don't understand or self contradicting)

went to the British Museum to research; BM is "where it's at" at the time for any research. everybody who's anybody went there to do their research.

Male/female dichotomies--contradicting ideas about women; we were the literary ideal yet in truth, flung about the room and owned by any male in the family be it father or husband

Money--allows for education and the opportunities to write
p38-freedom! I need not hate any man, he can take nothing from me; I need not flatter, he has nothing to give me.

subjective/objective--usually subjective, Virginia flips into objective and impersonal at times, like she flips truth/lies while fact-finding

Ch 3--
fictional story of Shakespeare's sister, Judith and history of women writers (made up the earlies story since there is no history of women that far back to Elizabethan women) and covers several known women-writers.
Why weren't there more woman writers? They couldn't own property because they were property; had no access to education or reading; Brontes (female authors, sisters) all published under pseudonyms (____ Bell)

p56 You shouldn't be able to tell what the writer is thinking, the writer's personality should not pervade through his/her work. The work should stand alone; grudges, spites and antipathies do not show through in Shakespeare's works and that makes him a good author.
the Great Artist is impersonal, objective

Ch 4--
the learning? lonely? world of the female writer; giving us (the readers) a coherent history of women writers, offering an alternate cannon!
p63 a contrast to Eliot who was not a fan of the romantics puts writers on a pedestal above ordinary people on the street
p64 a woman, the first who makes her living on writing, and the middle-class women who begin to write
Histories are written by men, who catalog wars, because Men think wars are important but Virginia Woolf writes about the beginning of women writing a lot as the significance worth noting over wars (Did women have a renaissance and what was it?)
Jane Austin--did not have a room of her own, was constantly disturbed by comings and goings in the public parlor of the home, yet nothing of her life shows through to harm her work, not distracted by pettiness, anger and fear.