Asked to write about the notion of being a New Woman, I was reminded of Virginia Woolf’s peroration, delivered by Pamela Rabe in A Room of One’s Own: ‘It is fatal for anyone who writes to think of their sex.’
I should sign off now then. Accept a quick defeat and review my career. For women’s magazines are gender concentrate.
I did, however, dust off my women’s library. A library of w ... (read more)