Virginia Woolf: Professions for Women Term Paper by Top Papers

The paper discusses how Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen, on January 25, 1882, at Hyde Park Gate, London. The paper explains that she had the good fortune to be born into a wealthy, talented, upper-class, well-connected family, which in later years would give her the freedom to pursue her writing. The paper then goes on to discuss how it was a difficult time for women to access education or professional jobs, and this was an issue that preoccupied Woolf for much of her life. For this and other reasons, the paper explains that she is remembered as a feminist, although she herself did not like the term.