ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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LITERATURE QUESTIONS

CULTURAL AND LITERARY IN MODERNITY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who wrote the following statement: “When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant”?
A
Amy Lowell
B
Gertrude Stein
C
Virginia Woolf
D
Alice Walker
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Asked to speak at Cambridge on the subject “Women and Fiction”-for this was a lecture before it was an essay-Mrs Woolf confessed that the subject could encompass a great deal.

Detailed explanation-2: -1. “Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.” 2. “It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Hi, The lack of women writers in a particular age and the lack of historical records regarding women are silent indicators of the suppression of the voice of women in society.

Detailed explanation-4: -Briefly, Virginia Woolf wants women to be free in every field. She states that the rights given to men about working with equal rights as men, fair wages or equal pay, having equal right in education and sex equality should be given to women, as well.

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