Abstract
In this paper, I argue that the figure of the charwoman in Jacob's Room offers insight into how Woolf understood the pressures shaping the lives of laboring women whom she describes in her essay “Lives of the Obscure” (1925) as “stranded ghost[s] […] waiting, appealing, forgotten, in the growing gloom” (106-07).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 56-57 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | Virginia Woolf Miscellany |
| Issue number | 100 |
| Publication status | Published - 01 Sept 2023 |
Keywords
- Virginia Woolf, Women, Working Class
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Virginia Woolf: dance, rhythm, movement
Mayne, R. (Author), Murray, A. (Supervisor) & Livingstone, J. (Supervisor), Jul 2025Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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