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She was a member of the Fabian Society
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==Politics==
 
==Politics==
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Virginia Woolf actively supported women's suffrage, and joined organizations advocating for the right to vote for women. However, Woolf was typical of the early women's movement in that she held many of the more reasonable positions of women's rights without the more extremist positions of contemporary feminism. For instance her lesser known essays focus on such anachronistic principles as the immorality of women eating sausages sold by street vendors and of petting an acquaintance's terrier without a proper introduction. <ref>http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jwoolf.htm</ref>
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Virginia Woolf actively supported women's suffrage, a member of the [[Fabian Society]],<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=E4RIzqTmSFQC&pg=RA1-PA23 Virginia Woolf: A Biography]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=87bRTZcJqGMC&pg=PA218 Virginia Woolf's Renaissance: Woman Reader Or Common Reader?]</ref> and joined organizations advocating for the right to vote for women. However, Woolf was typical of the early women's movement in that she held many of the more reasonable positions of women's rights without the more extremist positions of contemporary feminism. For instance her lesser known essays focus on such anachronistic principles as the immorality of women eating sausages sold by street vendors and of petting an acquaintance's terrier without a proper introduction. <ref>http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jwoolf.htm</ref>
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Her husband Leonard Woolf was also a Fabian.
    
==Selected Bibliography==
 
==Selected Bibliography==
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==References==
 
==References==
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