Reflections: Virginia Woolf and Her Quaker Aunt, Caroline Stephen

by Kathleen Heininge

Overview

This iconoclastic study compares the lives and works of Virginia Woolf and her Quaker aunt, Caroline Stephen, to suggest that Woolf was more deeply influenced by a sense of mysticism than she was by her father's atheism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433133299
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	05/04/2016
Series:	Studies in Twentieth-Century British Literature , #13
Pages:	186
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kathleen A. Heininge received her Master’s Degree from California State University East Bay and her Doctorate from University of California at Davis, both in English literature. She is presently Professor of English at George Fox University in Oregon. Her previous publications include her book, Buffoonery in Irish Drama: Staging Twentieth-Century Post-Colonial Stereotypes (Lang, 2009).

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction – Patriarchy – Faith and God – Evil – Service – Women’s Roles – Silence and Speaking – Dress – Light – Works Cited.