Virginia Woolf: 1. It is useful to point out that this essay was originally delivered to women students at two Oxford colleges. Ask your students to identify what evidence there is to suggest Woolf was aware of the nature of her audience. I think that the sensitivity shown towards obstacles women would and have faced shows clearly that she was aware of here female audience. Also you can sense a change of tone when it comes to addressing opinions of males. 2. What do the chapter headings from Trevelyan’s History of England (para. 6) reveal about historians’ concerns? The chapter headings portray that women had little assistance in great movements and that their primary duties were to marry and bear children. 3. What would Woolf propose as the most important changes in society that would alter the situation most talented women find themselves in? Why does talent make a woman’s situation especially difficult? Woolf proposes that women should be encoura