1866-1928: 2 colleges for women.
1880-1928: Women could own their own property.
1919: given the vote.
No time at all for these freedoms.
Why are there no women Shakespeare's? Well, according to Virginia Woolfe, women have not been given the same education. They have been creating in a different medium for years. 17th century theatre: women did not act. There were only boys on stage until the restoration in 1660.
Judith Shakespere runs away, gets rejected from the stage, becomes pregnant via stage manager; all of this culminating in her eventually killing herself.
Women during this time who wrote usually burned or destroyed their work.
The notion is brought up in class that women should write objectively; no one should write in a heat of anger.
Men are saying women are inferior within their work simply because men are feeling very insecure with the women's movement; it all makes for lousy fiction.
Turn back to Shakespeare because he was androgynous.
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