In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above.

Virginia Woolf

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Topic

Gender roles Gender

Author

Virginia Woolf

Source

Orlando

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Feminist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Woolf, Virginia. Orlando: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1928, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. Penguin Classics, 2019, ch. 4.

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Topic
Religion

Author

Beatrice Potter Webb
Source
My Apprenticeship
Language
English
Time
1926 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Webb, Beatrice Potter. My Apprenticeship. Cambridge University Press, 1979, ch. 2. Originally published by Longmans, Green and Co., 1926, ch. 2.