ABSTRACT

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was critically engaged all her life in the problem of writing lives and, in particular, the problem of writing women’s lives. An important modernist writer of fiction, she also questioned from a feminist perspective traditional accounts of the subject and prefigured and even helped to influence presentday debates about writing and sexual difference. She provides a good place to begin a chapter about ‘Other Subjects’ and an important point of reference for all the debates about difference that follow.