Abstract
IT is now sixty years since Virginia Woolf urged us, in A Room of One's Own (1929,1963, p. 76) to 'think back through our mothers' in the search for our lost female heritage: 'It is useless to go to the great men writers for help.' These words have had an inspiring influence on two generations of women writers, and have been taken up as a rallying cry by historians of "women's writing. While not wishing in any way to derogate Woolf's influence, I would like to suggest that the time has come when we might re-examine her use of such a metaphor of matrilineage in the light of recent developments in feminist theory and gynocentric literary history.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 224-239 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Women |
Volume | 1 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1990 |