Virginia Woolf "A Room Of One's Own" Chapter 5

Chapter 5
In the course of her survey Mary Benton reached her presence. It was the time, when women wrote just as many books as men. Turning away from pure novels, women also wrote books about history, faraway countries and aesthetics.

Mary Carmicheal[1] was the first to write about a relationship within her gender. Up to Jane Austin women in literature were not only seen mainly by the other gender but also only in their relationship to the other gender. No matter how clumsy Mary Carmicheal was she wrote as a woman who had forgotten that she was a woman. What a groundbreaking feat!

[1] Mary Carmicheal was the pseudonym of Marie Stopes ( 1880 – 1958) was a Scottish author, campaigner for women's rights and pioneer in the field of family planning