March 13, 2009
Virginia, Jean, and Flannery: A Good Role Model Is Easy to Find
Woolf, Rhys, and O'Connor sounds like a law firm, and indeed it could be — a firm sure to lay down clear laws and illuminating precedents for women writers. First, however, Jean Rhys (1890-1979) and Flannery O'Connor (1925-64) would have to make full partner alongside the so-called "high priestess of Bloomsbury."
The peculiar status of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) as muse to every woman seeking a room of her own took off after fast sales of The Years landed her on Time
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