With this character, Ms. Woolf mocks politically engaged progressives.
Evelyn is very bright, but the kind of activist who thinks a few marchers can, to reference a cause popular among marchers in Pittsburgh, "end rape and take back the night".
In another place in the book she explains that if a few smart young women went out throughout the cities of England and gave a good talking to to prostitutes on the street they could put an end to prostitution quite quickly.
In another place in the book she explains that if a few smart young women went out throughout the cities of England and gave a good talking to to prostitutes on the street they could put an end to prostitution quite quickly.
Ten people who really set their minds to it can fix it all, says Evelyn.
The Voyage Out, chapter 24 (for example).
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