Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: A famous section of Virginia Woolf 's feminist treatise, A Room of One's Own (1929), includes an impossible admonition.Woolf writes, "Jane Austen should have laid a wreath upon the grave of Fanny Burney" (113).Like Austen, Woolf suggests, we must honor our pioneering female-author predecessors.Noble as that goal was, Woolf 's imaginary charge to Austen (1775-1817) could never have been carried out.Born some twenty years before Austen, Frances Burney (1752-1840) also outlived her by two decades.Woolf did not recognize this; subsequent generations of feminist literary critics missed it,
Author: Devoney Looser
Institution: Arizona State University
Language: English
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4297917808