She had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open air" (Woolf, 1996 P.5.) ... Clarissa is analysed in terms of her life, personality, and thought process throughout the book by the author and other characters. ... Woolf strived to illustrate the vain artificiality of Clarissa's life and her involvement in it. ... The thread of the Prime Minister throughout, the near fulfilling of Peter's prophecy concerning Clarissa's proposed marriage to Roger, and the characters of the doctors compared to the tragic plight of Septimus throw a critical light upon the so...

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• Grade Level: High School

Walker, Marshall, and Hurston; Women writing other Women Alice Walker, through her essay "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens", and Paule Marshall, in "Poets In The Kitchen", both write about the African-American women of the past and how these women have had an impact on their writing. Walke...

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Popular authors like Dickens and Trollope churned out three-volume novels, engaged in numerous philanthropic projects, devoured twelve-course dinners, took twenty-mile walks, and produced a voluminous correspondence. ... Elaborating somewhat on these authors, I hope, gives the reader an insight to their wishes, their lives, and their beliefs, which were all central to their works, since they were all pivotal figures in this era, in regard to their contribution to the field of literature and otherwise. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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