Shakespeare's Sister
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Virginia Woolf
Shakespeare’s Sister Key Facts
Key Facts
Full Title: Shakespeare’s Sister (an excerpt from A Room of One’s Own)
Writer: Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
Title of the Author: Novelist, Essayist, Feminist, and Modernist Thinker; a central figure of the Bloomsbury Group
Written Time: 1928 (originally delivered as a series of lectures at Newnham College and Girton College, Cambridge)
First Published: 1929 (in A Room of One’s O...
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Shakespeare’s Sister Summary
Summary
Women’s Glory in Literature vs. Their Degradation in Reality: In this part, Virginia Woolf says that it is very difficult to find the real truth about women in history. Everyone gives opinions, but no one records the actual facts. So, she decides to consult historians’ books to know how women lived during the Elizabethan Age (Shakespeare’s time). She reads Professor Trevelyan’s History of...
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Shakespeare’s Sister Theme
Themes:
Feminism: One of the central themes of Virginia Woolf’s “Shakespeare’s Sister” is feminism. She shows how society, religion, and culture in every age have suppressed women’s talent and freedom. In the Elizabethan era, women writers were invisible because they had no access to education or independence. Woolf argues that for a woman to become a writer, she must have “a room of her own” and...
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