How women work女性职业如何.doc

How women work女性职业如何 Born in England，Virginia Woolf was the daughter of Leslie Stephen，a well-known scholar. She was educated primarily at home and attributed her love of reading to the early and complete access she was given to her fatherlsquo;s library. With her husband，Leonard Woolf，she founded the Hogarth Press and became known as member of the Bloomsbury group of intellectuals，which included economist John Maynard Keynes，biographer Lytton Strachey，novelist E. M. Forster，and art historian Clive Bell. Although she was a central figure in London literary life，Woolf often saw herself as isolated from the mains stream because she was a woman. Woolf is best known for her experimental，modernist novels，including Mrs. Dalloway(1925)and To the Lighthouse(1927)which are widely appreciated for her breakthrough into a new mode and techniquethe stream of consciousness. In her diary and critical essays she has much to say about women and fiction. Her 1929 book A Room of Onersquo;s Own documents her desire for women to take their rightful place in literary history and as an essayist she has occupied a high place in 20th century literature. The common Reader(1925 first series;1932 second series)has acquired classic status. She also wrote short stories and biographies.Professions for Womentaken from The collected Essays Vol 2. is originally a paper Woolf read to the Womenlsquo;s Service League，an organization for professional women in London. When your secretary invited me to come here，she told me that your Society is concerned with the employment of women and she suggested that I might tell you something about my own professional experiences. It is true that I am a woman;it is true I am employed;but what professional experiences have I had?It is difficult to say. My profession is literature;and in that profession there are fewer experiences for women than in any other，with the exception of the stagefewer，I mean，that are peculiar to women. For the road was cut many years agoby