`There she sat': The Power of the Feminist Imagination in To the Lighthouse

Authors

Beth R. DaughertyFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1991

Publication Title

Twentieth Century Literature

Keywords

Virginia Woolf, Feminism

Abstract

Considers how Virginia Woolf fuses her personal, feminist, and artistic aims in the novel `To the Lighthouse.' Discussion of the matriarchal myths of Mary and Eve; How Woolf mothers herself in the novel; Elements of a mother in `A Sketch of the Past.'

First Page

289

Last Page

308

Volume

37

Issue

3

Repository Citation

Daugherty, Beth R., "`There she sat': The Power of the Feminist Imagination in To the Lighthouse" (1991). English Faculty Scholarship. 1.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/eng_fac/1

Original Citation

Daugherty, B.R. "`There She Sat': The Power Of The Feminist Imagination In To The Lighthouse." Twentieth Century Literature 37.3 (1991): 289. Academic Search Premier. Web. 15 Oct. 2014

Version

Publisher's Version

Peer Reviewed

1