A woman novelist who claimed that "women are indispensable for fixed income and one person's time for women to create art" 90 years ago

byShawn Harquail

On January 25Doodle(Google logo) decoratedVirginia WoolfIs a British female novelist who worked during the war between World War I and the Second World War. It was regarded as an important person in the literary literature at the time, "Mrs Dalloway"To the lighthouse"Although QUARTZ writes about essays written by her in 1928," essay that women need constant revenue and no obstruction for anyone to produce art ", which she published in 1928.

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Wolf is an essay called "A Room of One's Own", and in order for women to do creative activities, various obligations imposed for financial reasons and "because they are women" I wrote that I must be released from. Wolf came up with such idea because she was spending about 500 pounds (about 4.5 million yen in terms of current value) for paper purchase each year to write a novel or essay Thing. Also, she has support from her husband Henard who understands her writing activities, she also has a study dedicated to herself. Based on these experiences, she came to have the idea that "women need creative activities, firstly" money "and" individual rooms that can be themselves "are necessary.

Wolf's "private room" is "a room of creation that can be deprived of their own thoughts without being disturbed by anyone and can depart from the eyes of someone who watches themselves or the troublesome events of the world The space released from everything that would become like " And "money" means that "With regular income, women can freely spend their time in the artistic activities they seek and can economically afford to disseminate the necessary observations." Wolf thought that the lack of experience to enrich life and the poor state of daily living due to the low social position influence the quality of fiction that it produces.


Wolfe in the essay are both British female novelistsJane AustenWhenCharlotte BronteI will inquire about. "pride and prejudice"EmmaAustin known for his work such as "Somerset · MormHe chose to be the best 10 of the world's novels and said that the stylist filled with sharp sensibilities and humor is unparalleled, and Natsume Soseki also said "to enter the technique god with graceful literature that makes us active in mediocrity" A reputed novelist. But Wolf believes that Bronte is more talented than Austin, unfortunately Bronté's representative work "Jane Air"When we look at the regrettable part it states as follows.

"A woman (Bronte) who wrote this work (" Jane Air ") is more talented than Jane Austen, but since the emotions of Bronte's anger have been exposed in the novel, that talent is It is not fully demonstrated. The feelings of anger distorted the contents of the novel. Writing with anger in a place to write calmly, writing it wisely in a place to write sensibly, I have written myself where I should write a character. Her unhappy enlightenment made it do that. "

Wolf notes that the novel shows the difference between Austin, who lived a lifetime peacefully and Bronte, who sent a turbulent life. And, "Without money, people pay tribute to frivolous things."

byIsabelle Gallino

In the present age of the 21st centuryThe poverty of the home environment affects the brain, Living in poor areasI can not get out of poverty, and IQ and health are also adversely affectedIt is widely known that poverty affects thinking, as research results such as research results are announced. However, the achievement of Virginia Woolf who understood it deeply in 1928, tried to widely announce it to the world by writing essays, may be more widely known to the world.