Virginia Woolf wrote this essay just after women achieved the right to vote. Woolf brings up an interesting point that there has not been a female Shakespeare in British history, even though during the 18th century mass printing was available for the citizens of England for the first time . I believe with the addition of mass printing press available to the public, there should be a woman who ranks up there with Shakespeare. Her answer to this question is, even if there was a woman with the talent, women are educated differently. They are educated to become homemakers and proper wives.
Shakespeare's sister tried to follow in her brother's footsteps, but the problem at the time was women could not act in the plays. Women started to burn their work because it was looked down upon to write and be faced up to men's writing. That notion is just ludicrous and people believing this idea were bigger fools than the women they looked at negatively during the 19th century. The sad part about this essay was for me is I know men who believe women should stay at home and be a housewife. The question I ask is how sad is it that some men still think women should not work outside the house. Blasphemy is what I call it.
The room of my dreams to help create ideas is a room that is bounded by bookshelves on all sides. The bookshelves would contain a fiction section. The fiction bookshelf would hold volumes of literature from the European continent; including Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, Beowulf, Friedrich Schiller, Goethe, E.T.A Hoffman, Alexander Dumas, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft.
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