Phyllis and Rosamond Phyllis et Rosamond 1906 “They seem indigenous to the drawing-room, as though, born in silk evening robes, they had never trod a rougher earth than the Turkey carpet...” In this story, the reader is invited to contemplate the dilemma facing two sisters, trapped between their bohemian aspirations of freedom and expression and the conventional environment of their household, in which they are simply waiting to become married. As an opening argument, Woolf explains that she wishes to narrate the daily lives of women such as Phyllis and Rosamond precisely because they are so common and so typical, and yet barely recorded by novelists and historians, who only seem to remember great men.
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