Ramsay could be described as conventional qualities of Victorian women, with perhaps the most conformist being a woman dedicated to the home and to domesticity. Many of the traits that Bradshaw states Woolf has bestowed upon Mrs. Ramsay’s character as beautiful, loving and caring, qualities which Woolf most admired in her mother, however she continues to write that Woolf also ‘explores Julia Stephen’s limitations in this novel, especially her conventionality, her anti-feminism her imperiousness, and her imperialism’ (2008. Ramsay, the latter of whom seems to embrace the majority of these Victorian principles. Her parents Leslie and Julia Stephen are modelled upon the characters Mr. p xxi) states that Woolf was ‘anxious to exorcise not only the ghosts of her parents in To the Lighthouse but also many of the Victorian values they so magnificently embodied’. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest’ (1985. In Moments of Being, Woolf describes her long, unhealthy obsession with her parents, and states that writing To the Lighthouse was a form of therapy for her: ‘I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. Woolf was grievously affected by the deaths of her parents she was just 13 when her mother died and her father passed only a decade later, and she suffered psychological breakdowns after each. p128), and it was this nostalgia, alongside her fixation with her deceased parents, that encouraged her to write the novel. Woolf described her childhood as the ‘best beginning to life conceivable’ (1985. Ives in Cornwall where Woolf holidayed with her family during childhood summers. To the Lighthouse is a loosely autobiographical novel it portrays the Ramsay family – who are fashioned upon members of Woolf’s own family – holidaying on the Isle of Skye, a guise for St. The focus of this essay is to examine the treatment of the female gender and sexuality in the two novels. The question asks to examine the ‘treatment of sex and sexuality’, and to clarify, this essay will refer to sex in the sense of gender rather than physical sex. The two primary texts under examination in this essay are D.H Lawrence’s Women in Love and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. There are some great references in here that took me a while to find, so uploading in the hope it may be of use to other literature students. I’ve been going through some essays I had written for my degree, this was one I was especially pleased with.

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