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Virginia Woolf

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  • What is significant about Septimus's suicide?
    It is a protest against societal oppression and lack of understanding
  • What is the meaning behind the title *A Room of One’s Own*?
    That a woman needs money and a private space to write
  • What experience inspired Woolf's feminist criticism?
    She was denied formal education while her brothers attended university
  • Who is Judith Shakespeare?
    Shakespeare’s fictional sister who represents silenced female genius
  • Who is Sally Seton?
    Clarissa’s rebellious friend and same-sex love interest
  • What does “Chloe liked Olivia” subtly reference?
    Same-sex desire between women in literature
  • Who is Clarissa Dalloway preparing for?
    She is hosting a party
  • What real writers does Woolf praise as exceptions?
    Jane Austen and George Eliot
  • What connects Septimus and Clarissa thematically?
    Both struggle with inner conflict and societal expectations
  • What is the androgynous mind?
    A mind that combines masculine and feminine qualities in writing
  • Who is Septimus Warren Smith?
    A WWI veteran suffering from shell shock
  • What was the name of the literary group Woolf belonged to?
    The Bloomsbury Group
  • What is the famous quote about women and writing?
    “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
  • What does the Oxbridge library represent?
    The exclusion of women from knowledge and institutions
  • What genre is *A Room of One’s Own*?
    A feminist essay-fiction hybrid
  • What is the narrative time span of *Mrs Dalloway*?
    One single day
  • What is the last line of *Mrs Dalloway*?
    “It is Clarissa, he said.
  • What technique does Woolf use to show character consciousness?
    Stream of consciousness
  • What repeated image represents time in *Mrs Dalloway*?
    “The leaden circles dissolved in the air.”
  • What does Clarissa remember as the most intense moment of her life?
    Kissing Sally Seton
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