This chapter brings the novels discussed in prior chapters into conversation with Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. That conversation highlights how Woolf’s text highlights the unique sociopolitical and literary period during which the novels discussed were composed. That conversation also allows this chapter to explore the literary activism undergirding all the texts: their calls for new and different stories to be conceived. This chapter thus reinforces the assertion that these novels contain within them suggestions of stories that were—because of the turbulence of this period’s social and literary worlds—ripe for the writing. It presents them as potential origin stories worthy of further consideration, not as great literature, but rather as lenses through which to examine why some of the plotlines they introduced took hold and others did not. It also further illustrates that the Girton Girl character actively explored many hopes and anxieties of the four decades prior to the Great War.

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Conclusion: Girton Girl Fiction of 1880 to 1914, Reclaiming Narratives on Sufferance

  • Laura Rotunno

摘要

This chapter brings the novels discussed in prior chapters into conversation with Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. That conversation highlights how Woolf’s text highlights the unique sociopolitical and literary period during which the novels discussed were composed. That conversation also allows this chapter to explore the literary activism undergirding all the texts: their calls for new and different stories to be conceived. This chapter thus reinforces the assertion that these novels contain within them suggestions of stories that were—because of the turbulence of this period’s social and literary worlds—ripe for the writing. It presents them as potential origin stories worthy of further consideration, not as great literature, but rather as lenses through which to examine why some of the plotlines they introduced took hold and others did not. It also further illustrates that the Girton Girl character actively explored many hopes and anxieties of the four decades prior to the Great War.