The journey through Women and Fiction is a complicated one in part, because the subject is open to various meanings. Woolf distinguishes several of them. ¡°Women and Fiction¡± could mean: ¡°Women and what they are like¡±, ¡°Women and the Fiction they create.¡±, and ¡°Women and the fiction that is written about them.¡± Throughout the text, it should be noted that Woolf will often consider these themes, as she says, ¡°inextricably mixed together.¡± She will do so especially through the lens of fictional personal experience, most memorably with the description of two imaginary meals, one at a women¡¯s college, the other at a men¡¯s.

Woolf believes that women are different from men both in their social history as well as inherently, and that each of these differences has had important effects on the development of women's writing. The focus here is on women developing independent of men, and on their expressing capacities that are inherently different from those of men. The narrator points out that Seventeenth Century first women writers were individuals whose talent was somewhat wasted by its depreciation by ¡°¡®the opposing faction.¡¯¡± However, with Aphra Behn, the narrator contends, ¡°here begins the freedom of the mind,¡± the possibility that in the course of time one will be free to write what one likes. Mrs. Behn's success led to very many women earning money through writing in the Eighteenth Century, forerunners of the successful women writers of the early 19th Century: Jane Austen, the Brontes, and George Eliot. As to why the early 19th century writers were all novelists, women¡¯s common social role seems to have been the reason. Functioning at the heart of the family, she observes, women's training inevitably includes the observation of character and the analysis of emotion. These are faculties women acquire

I think the focus of this novel is what the narrator experiences along the way. Just like the way it is with our lives. The most important is how we arrive at the final destination rather than where that is or whether we actually get there.

In ¡°A Room of One¡¯s Own¡±, Virginia Woolf is challenging the common assumption, current even in this century, that women are intellectually or artistically incapable of producing great literature. In response to this view, Woolf argues that women of genius have always existed, but unlike their male contemporaries, few women have been granted the basic material and spiritual conditions (an independent income and privacy) to develop their talent.

he says, ¡°¡®Dinner was not good.¡¯¡± It consisted of plain soup, beef, cabbages, and potatoes, followed by prunes and custard. ¡°The water jug was liberally passed around.¡± The situation at the men¡¯s college was quite different. Here there was

Despite the enhanced conditions and numerous opportunities, she admits that young women have made little effort in life. She claims the Judith Shakespere is only dormant, and will come to live if women are in possession of money and a room in the future.

The narrator goes on to contend that it¡¯s not only in access

Some topics in this essay:
Women Fiction, Mary Carmichael, Charlotte Bronte, Napoleon Mussolini, Shakespeare¡¯s Creativity, Virginia Woolf, One¡¯s Own¡±, George Eliot, Aphra Behn, Seventeenth Century, real life, women fiction, ¡°a one¡¯s own¡±, tradition women, women narrator, 19th century, women able, formal education, women claims, women¡¯s college, ¡°women fiction,