Shakespeare Sister

“Shakespeare’s Sister” This is a short story written by Virginia Woolf in 1929. She was born in London, where she grew up in an environment of wealth and culture, meeting many of the most distinguished intellectuals of all time. Virginia was home-schooled for all of her education growing up, and later became the center of the intellectual and artistic Bloomsbury Group. The setting of “Shakespeare’s Sister” is during the time when William Shakespeare was …

…both seemed to have troubled first marriages and had left their first loves and had set road to a finer place. I believe Woolf’s problems growing up are portrayed in this short story but into another character. She explained Judith’s problems very precisely giving me the hint that she had once gone through the same problems herself. This was a intriguing short story that I believe, portrayed a time of the authors life.