Question
This essay argues that 19th-century women’s writing was dominated by novels, even though “the original impulse was to poetry.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this essay, which opens by admitting the author’s uncertainty about “the true nature of women and the true nature of fiction.” This essay argues that women need money and the title location in order to write fiction.
ANSWER: “A Room of One’s Own”
[10e] This modernist author wrote the essay “A Room of One’s Own,” as well as novels including To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway.
ANSWER: Virginia Woolf [or Adeline Virginia Woolf; or Adeline Virginia Stephen]
[10h] Woolf credits this author with providing proof that middle-class women could write for a living. This female Restoration-era dramatist wrote plays including The Emperor of the Moon and The Rover.
ANSWER: Aphra Behn [or Astrea]
<Literature - British Literature>
Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 5 | 8.00 | 60% | 20% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia A | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| NYU A | Swarthmore A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Swarthmore B | NYU B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| University of Delaware A | Penn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia B | University of Delaware B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |