Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) daughter of a knight of the realm stayed at home while her brothers were sent to school and university. Virginia Woolf then posits the need of a woman who wants to write to have 2 things: a room of her own and enough money to maintain herself. Alice Walker then wonders “what then are we to make of Phillis Wheatley, a slave who owned not even her self? All that Alice Walker need say is that Phyllis (was her name Ronke before enslavement?) had rich and sympathetic owners who stood for the two conditions that Virginia Woolf set down.

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2020 03:00 UTC