Virginia Woolf Feminism and the Reader

This study argues that Virginia Woolf taught herself how to be a feminist artist and public intellectual through her revisionary reading. Fernald gives a clear view of Woolf's tremendous body of knowledge and her constant references to past literary periods.

Anne E. Fernald is Assistant Professor of English and Director of Writing and Composition at Fordham University’s College at Lincoln Center. Fernald’s work on Virginia Woolf and on modernism has appeared in Feminist Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, and Twentieth Century Literature as well as in several edited collections. A frequent book reviewer, she is also the book review editor for Woolf Studies Annual.
 

Introduction * O Sister Swallow: Sapphic Fragments as English Literature * The Memory Palace of Virginia Woolf * A Feminist Public Sphere? Woolf's Revisions of the Eighteenth Century * Aristocratic Liberalism and Armchair Socialism, or What Woolf Learned from Byron * Conclusion Introduction * O Sister Swallow: Sapphic Fragments as English Literature * The Memory Palace of Virginia Woolf * A Feminist Public Sphere? Woolf's Revisions of the Eighteenth Century * Aristocratic Liberalism and Armchair Socialism, or What Woolf Learned from Byron * Conclusion