In Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own, Woolf, who was an early twentieth century writer, looks back at the history of women’s literature coming to a thesis statement saying, “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” In A Room of One’s Own, there is a story of Shakespeare’s Sister, where it also says, “Any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days. . .”(Shakespeare’s Sister-NAWL 1343).

It is interesting that she puts this in her writing because Woolf herself went crazy and had several mental breakdowns in her life when things were rough. What was even more interesting was the fact that she committed suicide herself years after writing the line above in her essay. She does c

In conclusion, all of these women authors mentioned above, have many things in

In the next novel Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen portrays bits of her life into Northanger Abbey, sometimes using contrasting ideas to do it. If you remember when

ontradict herself by saying any woman born with a gift in the sixteenth century would have killed herself because she killed herself in the nineteenth century because she, “could not go on longer in those terrible times” (The Literature Network www.online-literature.com/virginia_woolf).

common in their writing. All of their main characters are heroes. They are strong-willed women who have many obstacles throughout their life. To get what they want they have to overcome certain hardships. Women will always write their characters more powerful than they could be in real life because that is what they wish for themselves. Most writers do use examples from their own lives and personality traits from themselves when writing novels. I noticed though, that women do it much more often in their writing, especially women writing earlier novels where they actually experienced the problem or dilemma the character in their book was having or facing. Women use this connection between their novel and themselves to become emotionally attached. It is a lot easier to write about something if you have actually experienced it. I feel that it is a better book if the author has experienced what the character is experiencing. You seem to be involved in the book more and can imagine you are there a lot better because things are described better and in most cases, the author is more educated about the situation at hand from seeing or feeling first hand which then educates you better about that particular time in history. I enjoyed the books more whose authors actually connected with their novel in some way. For example, I felt like Charlotte Bronte was actually Jane in her novel. I felt closer to the character by the way she wrote. Then, in Dessa Rose, it was hard to connect with the main character Dessa because Williams’ did not write her as well which makes me come to the conclusion that if an author actually has the same experience as he

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