Woolf’s Ambiguities

In a book that compares Virginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist activist Elizabeth Robins (1862–1952), Molly Hite explores the fascinating connections between Woolf's aversion to women's "pleading a cause" in fiction and her narrative technique of complicating, minimizing, or omitting tonal cues. Hite shows how A Room of One's Own , Mrs. Dalloway , and The Voyage Out borrow from and implicitly criticize Robins's work. Hite presents and develops the concept of na