The book is an investigation of Women Writers and Fiction. Woolf imagines what the life of Shakespeare's sister would have been like - "who shall measure the heat and violence of the poets heart when caught in tangles in a woman's body?" (p. 48)...
The guise of anon is a place that women writers have found the ability to speak beyond the limitations of other's perceptions and societal norms-
Woolf writes, "Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman." (p. 49)
"And undoubtedly, I thought, looking at the shelf where there are no plays by women, her work would have gone unsigned. That refuge she would have sought certainly. It was the relic of the sense of chasity that dictated anonymity to women even so late as the nineteenth century...publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still posses them." (p.50)
Poem By Sandy Jeffs from The Wings of Angels A Memoir of Madness--SAndy Jeffs has lived with schizophrenia and all its moods for twenty-five years----2004 (Pinifex) p. 75
Cyber-Journey
I, Sandy, cybernaut
traveller of old
surf the net
born again in cyberspace
avatar & idol
clone of many alter egos & cyber-selves
at home in my cyber-neighbourhood
I, Sandy, cyber-student
procurer of cyber-knowledge in my cyber-world
of dot com, dot net, dot edu
drown in acronyms
I cyber-babble in a chat room
of disembodied cyber-friends
move in a virtual community write Slash ficition &
watch cyber portn
I, Sandy cyber-hacker
infiltrate NASA, the Pentagon,
the FBI, the CIA & ASIO
the new Everest to conquer
with my comrades Electron & Pheonix
craving kudos & infamy
the computer my only friend.
I Sandy, cyber-priestess
practise cyber religion
worship cyber-spirits & cyber-gods
exorcise cyber-devils form my cyber-soul
I send cyber-message to
God@heaven.com.uni
I seek the protection of cyber-angels
& the intercession of cyber-saints
At the end of my cyber-odyssey
awaits cyber-death, cyber-apocalypse
cyber-paradise, cyber-utopia
&cyber immortality
I, Sandy, cyber-mother
made love in cyberspace
& gave birth to cyborg twins
Mozart & Hitler
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