For 10 points, name this essay prepared as a lecture for Girton and Newnham Colleges, which notes the necessity of both five hundred a year and the title space for women to write, by Virginia Woolf.
This work's speaker hums Tennyson's "Song From Maud" and Rosetti's "A Birthday" between the lavish lunch and plain dinner that set up its central contrast. In its final section, that speaker rejoices over the phrase "Chloe liked Olivia," found in the invented novel Life's Adventure by Mary Carmichael, as an example of the kind of work she would like to see. Beginning by describing a failure to get into the British Museum, this essay also claims that (*) Charlotte Bronte too easily let her personal circumstances penetrate her writing, and that George Eliot committed verbal atrocities by using a masculine sentence--as opposed to Jane Austen's creation of a feminine one--to show how circumstances alter writing. For 10 points, name this essay prepared as a lecture for Girton and Newnham Colleges, which notes the necessity of both five hundred a year and the title space for women to write, by Virginia Woolf.
This work's speaker hums Tennyson's "Song From Maud" and Rosetti's "A Birthday" between the lavish lunch and plain dinner that set up its central contrast.
A {Room} of {One's Own}