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Virginia Woolf was considered as a precursor of contemporary feminism.
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Virginia Woolf was considered as a precursor of contemporary feminism. Killing the Angel in the House: Seven Essays is not only an insight to the intriguing mind of Virginia Woolf, but also an insight into the society of her time and of times gone by, of how women writers, how she, has struggled to get to where they did. The titles of her essays - Professions for Women, The Feminine Note in Fiction, Women Novelists, The Intellectual Status of Women, Two Women, Memories of a Working Women's Guild and Ellen Terry - display to us the breadth not only in her subject matter but of the writing styles among this collection. "I discovered if I were going to review books I should need to do battle with a certain phantom. And the phantom was a woman, and when I came to know her better I called her after the heroine of...
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