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Virginia Woolf was a woman writer whose powerful bonds with women were a crucial factor in her life, and sexual and emotional orientation of being a woman profoundly affected her consciousness and creativity. In fact she wrote about sexual love between women in some of her works. In Melymbrosia, an early draft of her first novel, The Voyage Out, she wrote a scene in which Rachel, her heroine, scuffles on the ground with her aunt Helen. But when The Voyage Out was published, the strong lesbian undertones which the scene contained had been transformed into non-lesbian ones. Such a change illuminates not only the artistic evolution that Woolf s fiction underwent before publication, but also the author' s consistent tendency to obscure lesbian overtones. She was being silenced by the homophobic and misogynistic society to which she belonged, and forced to adopt internal censorship of her writings. In Mrs Dalloway, Woolf gave her heroine Clarissa lesbian sexuality, and tried to write overt lesbian moments among Clarissa and women. But she had to describe them by using the expression of man's sexual orgasm, not woman's. Woolf had not clarified lesbian language yet, like most of lesbian writers in her age. In A Room of One's Own and "Professions for Women", it seems that Woolf prophesied the birth of real lesbian literature in the near future and explored the new canon of sexualilty of men and women. She believed that this concerns itself deeply with woman's independence and evolution and really helps to expand all woman' s possibilities whether lesbian or heterosexual. Woolf's works will probably be fated to be misread and misunderstood if they are analyzed without considering her lesbian orientation and world view. Perhaps the time has come for us to recognize her as a lesbian writer.
- 1990-09-30
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