Facing Life as We Have Known It: Virginia Woolf and the Women's Co-operative Guild.

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dc.contributor.authorWood, Aliceen
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-11T14:32:48Z
dc.date.available2014-11-11T14:32:48Z
dc.date.issued2014-09-01
dc.description.abstractThis article explores Leonard and Virginia Woolf's early interactions with the Women's Co-operative Guild and supplies a contextualised analysis of Virginia Woolf's preface to Life as We Have Known It (1931). Written to introduce a volume of autobiographical sketches by Co-operative Guildswomen and published in a variant form in the Yale Review, this essay has generated conflicting debate in Woolf studies. In this article I argue that the essay fictionalises Virginia Woolf's relationship with the Guild, concealing her familiarity with Guild activities to better engage an anticipated middle-class readership and promote frank interrogation of class prejudice.en
dc.funderN/Aen
dc.identifier.citationWood, A. (2014) Facing Life as We Have Known It: Virginia Woolf and the Women's Co-operative Guild. Literature & History, 23: (2), pp. 18-34en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7227/LH.23.2.2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/10453
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
dc.projectidN/Aen
dc.publisherManchester University Pressen
dc.researchgroupEnglish Research Groupen
dc.researchinstituteInstitute of Englishen
dc.subjectVirginia Woolfen
dc.subjectclassen
dc.subjectBritish Co-operative movementen
dc.subjectwomen's writingen
dc.titleFacing Life as We Have Known It: Virginia Woolf and the Women's Co-operative Guild.en
dc.typeArticleen

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