 | Virginia Woolf - Authors, English - 1984 - 388 pages
...remembered how if one whistled one of them ran; and I thought of the organ booming in the chapel and of the shut doors of the library; and I thought how...I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in; and, thinking of the safety and prosperity of the one sex and of the poverty and insecurity of the... | |
 | Morris Beja - English literature - 1986 - 264 pages
...fictitious visit to "Oxbridge" (her hybrid term for the two famous patriarchal academic institutions): "I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out;...I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in; and, thinking of the safety and prosperity of the one sex and of the poverty and insecurity of the... | |
 | Jay Clayton, Eric Rothstein - American literature - 1991 - 364 pages
...thought after she was locked out of the library at Oxbridge: "And I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in" (24). 28 See for example Lacan, "The Purloined Letter" and "The Signification of the Phallus." 29 For... | |
 | Patricia Ondek Laurence - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 260 pages
...exclusion from Oxbridge in A Room of One's Own: And I thought of the organ booming in the chapel and of the shut doors of the library; and I thought how...I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in; and, thinking of the safety and prosperity of one sex and of the poverty and insecurity of the other... | |
 | Jeanette Clausen, Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Patricia A. Herminghouse - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 304 pages
...epistolary novel Die Günderode by Bettine von Arnim are used to illustrate the thesis. (R-EBJ) . . . and I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out;...thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in... —Woolf 24 In a pathbreaking 1983 article, the feminist political theorist Carole Pateman declared... | |
 | Jane Roland Martin - Education - 1994 - 270 pages
...mothers or the family — that is socialization. (4) In fact, do not mention girls or women at all." "I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out;...I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in" (Woolf 1928:24), Woolf said when she went back to her inn on the day she was chased off the grass,... | |
 | Wendy Kohli - Education - 1995 - 420 pages
...remembered how if one whistled one of them ran; and 1 thought of the organ booming in the chapel and of the shut doors of the library; and I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and 1 thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in (Woolf 1929, p. 40) Instead of seeking an assumed... | |
 | Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy, José Angel García Landa - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 502 pages
...with which Woolf expresses her reaction on discovering she was not allowed to enter to the university library: "And I thought how unpleasant it is to be...I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in" (1987: 24). Margaret finally decides that it is certainly much better to be locked out, and ends up... | |
 | Karen Schneider - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 244 pages
...dishonorable — and equally unacceptable — destiny, a danger already recognized by Virginia Woolf: "how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in" (Room 24). Pompey is at war with herself on two fronts. Smith's assertion of the discrepancy between... | |
 | John Dougill - Authors, English - 1998 - 416 pages
...dinner in a women's college. The disparity leads her to ponder on the organ booming in the chapel and of the shut doors of the library; and I thought how...I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in; and, thinking of the safety and prosperity of the one sex and of the poverty and insecurity of the... | |
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