1. | from A Room of One’s Own Authors typically write for one or more of the following purposes: to persuade, to inform, to explain, to entertain, or to describe. What do you think Virginia Woolf wanted to accomplish in this text? Does she succeed? What are your own opinions about “Shakespeare’s sister” and the situation of women in the era before women’s suffrage? Write a brief essay exploring these questions. Be sure to support your ideas with strong reasoning and examples from the text. |