"When one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet . . . some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor . . ."
Virginia Woolf's two eloquent lectures on sexual equality, or rather educational inequalities, the first - from which the above quote is taken - lyrical and witty, the second impassioned and angry, are placed side by side in this thought provoking volume, together with a stylish and lucid introduction by Hermione Lee. The cover photograph of a fragile, hesitant looking Woolf contrasts strikingly with the confident, polished polemic to be found inside.
