Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1986

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Greer, Allen W.

Abstract

This study briefly examines the legal and social position of women in the nineteenth century, with special attention to Virginia Woolf's own family background and to the development of her novels, culminating in To the Lighthouse. A survey of the critics' views of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay precedes a study of the ways in which Virginia Woolf dramatizes that marriage in itself and its effect on other family members as well as on the family's circle of friends. Finally, it addresses the relationship of Mrs. Ramsay to Minta and to the artist Lily Briscoe and the legacy of her death in women's growing awareness of their new role with the passing of the patriarchal family pattern.

Extent

59 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1986.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT14304

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