Any women's writing experts?

[AlisonSherwood]

I have to write an essay based on 1 of 3 questions:

1. Virginia Woolf wrote that 'all the older forms of literature were hardened and set by the time she became a writer' (A Room of One's Own, chapter four). Discuss the challenges and/or the opportunities represented by traditional literary genres for early women writers.

2. How useful is biography as a critical tool when reading early women writers?


3. What is gained and/or lost in treating 'women's writing' as a separate category of literature?

The women that can be featured are: Margery Kempe, Virginia Woolf, Mary Wroth & Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn

I don't want someone to write the essay for me of course but some hints of what you think is most important in the essay and a loose structure of points would be handy?

Thanks!

[Steven Hunley]

I have to write an essay based on 1 of 3 questions:

1. Virginia Woolf wrote that 'all the older forms of literature were hardened and set by the time she became a writer' (A Room of One's Own, chapter four). Discuss the challenges and/or the opportunities represented by traditional literary genres for early women writers.

2. How useful is biography as a critical tool when reading early women writers?


3. What is gained and/or lost in treating 'women's writing' as a separate category of literature?

The women that can be featured are: Margery Kempe, Virginia Woolf, Mary Wroth & Katherine Phillips and Aphra Behn

I don't want someone to write the essay for me of course but some hints of what you think is most important in the essay and a loose structure of points would be handy?

Thanks!

Do number two- it's important no matter the sex of the writer.

[AuntShecky]

I would choose number #3 and argue against treating literature by women authors -- or those of any social group-- as a separate category, as it tends to marginalize them.

[AlisonSherwood]

Okay so i just found out that i can't write about Woolf. Any particular biographical info that has obviously influenced these works?