The Woman Artist as Viewed by the Woman Novelist: George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing
The Woman Artist as Viewed by the Woman Novelist: George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing

Summary/Abstract: "I find it relevant to begin my paper with a famous quotation: “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” As you know, in her famous essay "A Room of One’s Own" (1929) Virginia Woolf emphasizes the connection between art and economics. When she accounts for the scarcity of literary masterpieces by women novelists she says that such books are “not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in”....."

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