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What is the message to women in the speech "Professions for Women" by Virginia Woolf?

What is "the Angel in the House" in "Professions for Women" by Virginia Woolf?

What's the difference between Woolf's literature and Joyce's?

Explain what Virginia Woolf means in "How Should One Read a Book?" when she says: "There is always a demon in us who whispers 'I hate, I love,' and we cannot silence him."

Virginia Woolf argues that for Modernist writers "the point of interest lies...in the dark places of psychology." What are some examples of this type of writing and what are its features?

What is the meaning of Virginia Woolf's androgynous mind?

Explain Woolf's final answer to the question she raises in the title "How Should One Read a Book?"

What relevant questions would you ask Virginia Woolf?

Can Virginia Woolf be considered a feminist? topic for a research paper

What are the main points in Virginia Woolf's book The Common Reader and her final essay in the book "How One Should Read a Book"? 

According to Woolf,why could women become writers before they could take part in other arts and profession?

After the luncheon at the men’s college, the narrator in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own spots a tail-less Manx cat from the window; this leads her to think of “lack” and the war. Why does his scene take place at the men’s college? How does the image connect to loss and World War I?

Why does Virginia Woolf think it would have been impossible for a woman of Shakespeare's time to have written plays of equal caliber? 

Virginia Woolf is not satisfied with language. Why?

How is the theme of social/political change on individual life portrayed in Virginia Woolf's A Sketch of the Past?

How does Virginia Woolf portray the role of the female writer or artist in society in two of her writings?

Is there a character named Mrs. Holloway in any of Virginia Woolf's writings?

Was Virginia Woolf part of Gertrude Stein's group in Paris?

Is Virginia Woolf personally attached to Jacob Flender in some way?  

Watch the film The Hours and post a response to the adaptation of Woolf's novel to the Woolf forum.