She = Woolf

Chapter 4 Summary: She critiques a few authors who were no help.

She advises women to write short due to interruptions in their life, which is different from others. The rules for poetry, novels, verse, and prose is laid out strong before any woman could understand how a masterpiece could be written. So yeah, be prepared to face rejections and guffaws. The stride and the pace of a person work differently.

See if you can write things that are not of everyday use. For example, writing, reading, and thinking you would waste your prime time. These would be frivolous acts, and one can find a way to make money and legitimize them. They are not an act of folly anymore. Choose your actions wisely. She compares a few authors, Charles Brontes, Jane Austen, and Aphra Ben(criticized for her self-interest, and we don’t know who she is working for), who are prime examples of how to make money by writing. We spot a few other characters who are servile and many who are despotic, sad, and raging with anger. When you have gifts and weeds, people will likely miss them and see weeds in you. The typical satire is that we have an itch and start scribbling nonsense. Rebecca identifies few people are snobs. In Tamil, we would say some are தறுதலை. She turns her attention to practicing football and medicine for women.