The New Dress | Topics for Further Study

Many of Woolf’s works highlight gender and class oppression. Research the decade of the 1920s in English history to discover why these were pertinent themes for Woolf and her contemporaries.

Woolf has become a cultural icon for feminists across the world. Read her essay A Room of One’s Own and explore the extent to which her ideas are useful for feminists today.

After some preliminary research into Sigmund Freud’s theories of various mental conditions, offer a partial ‘‘diagnosis’’ of what might be troubling Mabel Waring and how she might best...

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