Hey Jeff!!!
I’m glad you’re coming to me for help! This is some improvement. I defiantly agree with you that this book is hard to understand. I had to read it a few times myself to fully get the importance of chapter one. The weird thing about this chapter was that the narrator isn’t Virginia Woolf. The narrator said that it’s not important who is writing this. However, Chapter one basically explains how she was asked to write and speak about women and fiction. She basically sits on the side of a river bank most of the chapter thinking about women in history. She talks about how one time when she was in college she was walking on the grass one day and a man came up to her and told her that she wasn’t allowed to walk on it. She also refers to another story when women were not allowed to be in a library alone. She said that they had to be “accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction.” The overall point of this chapter was to discuss how women’s role in history has changed and evolved over the years and how when asked to write about influential women she was confused about what to write about. That was pretty much what I got out of that chapter, but good luck! As your English teacher if you need any more help.
Much Love,
Leanne
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Yes, Woolf/the narrator does start out with a mention of women and fiction and a description of the riverbank. She walks on to the campus of Oxbridge. She compares the men's university, Oxbridge, to the women's college Fernham, to show the difference between men's and women's access to education, tradition, and money.
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