Chapter 4, lecture review

Women want all the same opportunities as everybody else, but there were times where women were shunned for doing something that is not the norm. In Chapter 4, Woolf cites of past women writers of the hard ships they had to encounter along the way. Women were supposed to stay at home and manage the house, but that, in turn, made some women go "crazy". Lady Winchilsea, stated that men had the power and they dictated what women had to do, even if they wanted to become a writer. She wrote that women were supposed to follow certain areas of focus in life, but if they broke away from that path, it would "cloud their beauty" and "exhaust their time". The writers were angry because they could not showcase their talent because it was unorthhodox of women to follow a path as a writer.

Women were set to certain standards in earlier times which led Patmore to writing Angel in the House. It showed the moral and cultural values were in the hands of women. They judicate the moral aspect. Identity is a big issue. Women had to know what was entailed in it in order to fully understand their place in society.