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Born January 25, 1882

Grew up in a privileged household

Suffered from depression throughout her life

Her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915

She had three full siblings and four half-siblings

Her mother died when she was 13 from rheumatic fever

Sexually abused by her two half brothers

Studied at King's College in London

Married her husband Leonard Woolf on August 25, 1912

Published feminist works

Committed suicide at age 59 by drowning on March 28, 1941

“Virginia Woolf Biography.” Edited by Biography.com Editors, The Biography.com Website, A&E Television Networks, 2 Apr. 2014, www.biography.com/writer/virginia-woolf.

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Occurred between 1850-1940

The main agenda was equal rights for women

Started as a legal movement and shift to a political movement

Initial focus was on the right of paid work and a right to education

The focus shifted starting in 1890 with the fight for women's suffrage

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Feminism

Feminism is a word that comes from French. It is derived from the Latin word line 'femina', which means 'woman'. As far as we know, the words 'féminisme' and 'féminist' in the Netherlands and France were first used in 1872 by a letter from the Dutch feminist pioneer Mina Kruseman to the French writer Alexandre Dumas. In the late nineteenth century, feminism became an officially used term.

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In the nineteenth century, the contours of a feminist political movement became visible. Feminism became an official concept and the first feminist wave began in 1850. The spearheads of the women's movement were equality in education, labor and electoral rights.

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In Virginia Woolf's Professions for Women, Woolf focuses on the struggles for women in employment. She highlights that women have to work harder than men. She continues to say that female employment is less scrutinized if it is at home and affordable. Woolf then explains that this is why women writers have been so successful in that time. Virginia Woolf also mentions that she had to resist the control of what she called, The Angel in the House, while writing. What she means by this is that she needed to resist the urge to hold her tongue while writing.

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In Professions for Women Virginia Woolf highlights many aspects of her person struggles as a female writer and adjusting to the freedom it has given her. The audience for this piece is women. Although it is initially written towards a man who wanted to discuss professional women, Woolf states that she cannot explain what professional women are like. One of the points she makes is that she is working in a profession where many women are successful at and not in a male-dominated field. When Woolf goes into her struggles writing, she states that she has to go into a "trance-like" state in order to fully express her ideas and maintain her freedom as a female writer.

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Yonsei Digital English: Professions for Women (Virginia Woolf)