MJ's Challenge ~ The Voyage Out

[MaryJanet]

It's not a chickens threeaad, somaybe it's a tax free zone?

 

[Aussie-Chookmum]

I've read the first two
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paragraphs.

Did I have you going for a moment?

 

[MaryJanet]

I was just thinking that I'm going to take stock of the year in which it was published, 1915, and acknowledge that Austen and the Brontes pre-date her. So did many other women writers of fiction but they are not as well-remembered so were perhaps not as creative?

 

[MaryJanet]

Hmmm so that means VW is closer to Austen and the Brontes than to us.

 

[Ribh]

I was just thinking that I'm going to take stock of the year in which it was published, 1915, and acknowledge that Austen and the Brontes pre-date her. So did many other women writers of fiction but they are not as well-remembered so were perhaps not as creative?

Horse drawn cabs still.

 

[RoyalChick]

@RoyalChick ???

Let me try Kindle. I hate not having a real book but will try. Will let you know if I succeed in getting it.

 

[RoyalChick]

I was just thinking that I'm going to take stock of the year in which it was published, 1915, and acknowledge that Austen and the Brontes pre-date her. So did many other women writers of fiction but they are not as well-remembered so were perhaps not as creative?

Oh no. I will struggle to believe that. I suspect more to do with modern attitudes.

 

[RoyalChick]

Hmmm so that means VW is closer to Austen and the Brontes than to us.

That is a complicated question. Progress (if indeed it is progress) is surely not linear with time.

 

[Ribh]

Oh no. I will struggle to believe that. I suspect more to do with modern attitudes.

In many ways she was very modern & ran with the Bloomsbury crowd for ages ~ free love & all that. Dorothy L Sayers wrote some of the funniest & snarkiest commentary on the Bloomsbury lot.

 

[Ribh]

Let me try Kindle. I hate not having a real book but will try. Will let you know if I succeed in getting it.

Don't stress RC. I know you like a real book & that is my preference too but MJ has rightly pointed out we need to orientate in time so I need to do some extra reading. This is not my favourite historical period so I need a bit of a refresher course.