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2026-04-27 09:37 UTC

@paranoiapen@mas.to >which is Woolf's point: it would be fruitless to say anything definitive about women who write fiction or women and the fiction they write - if such a question has a single answer, and I don't think it does - because we just haven't had the same opportunities to freely create. The restrictions shape the work. An example she gives is in Jane Eyre, where at one point Jane goes off on one about how trapped and limited she feels because of all the things she cannot do as a woman>

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@rubyjones@wandering.shop 2026-04-27 09:40

@paranoiapen@mas.to >and Woolf sees this as a flaw in the work, because she sees in this passage the author's voice taking over and intruding to cry out about her own pain, instead of focusing on Jane's. I disagree about it being a flaw - I loved that passage when I read it for the same reasons Woolf dislikes it, and I identified with the feeling. But I agree that it is there because of the limitations imposed on Charlotte Bronte, and she would have written differently if she'd had more security and>

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@paranoiapen@mas.to 2026-04-27 09:45

@rubyjones@wandering.shop for me it's more about choices rather than restrictions. I am not oppressed, but choose to work in shared spaces and don't seek my own space. I actively don't *want* my own room, where my partner always has. And I feel like the experience of creating art while sharing space must affect that art, and I don't wish to go back and change the art I have produced as it relects who I am/was. But I am not representative of women and my partner is not representative of men.

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