Virginia Woolf was born on 25 January 1882 in London to an English family. His father was Sir Leslie Steven, a historian and author who was an important figure during the golden age of mountaineering; his mother Julia Prinsep Steven, a native of India, a nurse and also an author in the profession. With two substantial successors as parents, Woolf was one of seven siblings who were granted majestic opportunities. These opportunities included education from his parents. During this time girls could not go to school and many did not have the privilege of parents who could instill education. Knowing this, Virginia was destined to excel in life. Indeed, Woolf made the most of her potential. She spent time in numerous places which she eventually incorporated into many of her works and into modernist novels such as Profession for Women. In the essay Profession for Women Woolf talks about the “Victorian ghost known as the Angel of the House, that selfless and sacrificial nineteenth-century woman whose sole purpose in life was to soothe, flatter and comfort the male half of the woman”. world population." The essay shows how women struggled daily with the views that Victorian society placed on them. The customs of the Victorian era transcended into modernist times because some women were too afraid to explore their true selves. However, Virginia did not accept these ways because she knew that as a woman she could not be complete if she lived up to Victorian standards. Woolf established that unless one has explored and experienced the new things obtainable from the world, even these cannot be complete. In this essay I will respond to Virginia Woolf's essay Women's Professions and the Struggle of... middle of paper... we take a backseat and hide our intellect behind the soft exterior of emotions. As stated in Virginia Woolf's essay, Women's Professions, we will always have difficulty because we have to work harder than the male race. Works Cited Wolf, Virginia and Mitchell A. Leaska. "Professions for Women" by Virginia Woolf." "Professions for Women" by Virginia Woolf. Np, nd Web. 04 April 2014. Lemaster, Tracy. "'Girl with a Pen': Girl Studies and Third Wave Feminism in Una room of one's own and 'professions for women'." Feminist Formations 24.2 (2012): 77-99. MLA International Bibliography. Web. 2 May 2014 Bourke, PJ. Np. Web. 30 March 2014. .Rumbarger, Lee. " Housekeeping : Modernist women's writing on war and home. " Women's Studies 35.1 (2006): 1-15. Literary Reference Center. Web. March 30. 2014