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Description of  Virginia Woolf's Apprenticeship: Becoming an Essayist Ed 199

This study takes up Woolfs challenge to probe the relationship between education and work, specifically her education and her work as an essayist. It expands her education beyond her fathers library to include not only a broader examination of her homeschooling but also her teaching at Morley College and her early book reviewing. It places Virginia Stephens learning in the historical and cultural contexts of education for women, the working classes and writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Read more