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1. What is the role of tradition in the experience of a women writer? In that of writers in general?
2. What does Woolf say about
the creativity that women have always expressed in non-artistic
ways? (You might want to refer to her portrait of Mrs. Ramsay in
3. What predictions does Woolf make for women's writing in the future? How do they look from our current vantage point?
4. Does Woolf think poems are superior to novels? Explain.
5. Why, in Woolf's view, did Elizabethan women not write poetry?
6. How does Woolf treat the question of the female body? What does she mean when she says at the end of Chapter 4 that "the book has somehow to be adapted to the body"?
7. Woolf is careful to acknowledge the unmeasured and immeasurable value of the labor women have traditionally done. Yet she also projects a future in which women will have access to all kinds of careers. Does Woolf come down in favor of one or the other of these lifestyles? What does she take to be the pros and cons of each?
