Shakespeare's Sister

Shakespeare's Sister

In the excerpt by Virgina Woolf, we see that the whole essay is based on how women are barely proclaimed in the studies of history. By the tone of her voice, you can tell she is somewhat furious at the thought of this, and she makes her point of how women from the middle-class are portrayed as a value of unimportance in history. She continues on, telling a story about how a bishop she once knew stated that cats didn't go to heaven, and a woman can't write the plays of Shakespeare. Woolf didn't like the bishop very much, ...