What is the Virginia Woolf quote about 1910 and an elemental change in mankind?

Answer 1

A women needs a "room of one's own". Indicated the autonomy of women and their change in their role in society, that is in the time of patricarchy, the last 5000 yrs.

Michele Smith I'm not too sure about the above mentioned. A Room of One's Own is not a manifesto that would have brought about a "fumdamental change in mankind", esp. since Woolf addresses rather more of the inequalities women at the same faced than achievements of a feminist movement. I'd rather argue that she meant the First Post-Impressionist Exhibition at the Grafton Galleries, organized by Roger Fry, which started in November 1910 with considerable opposition among art critics and journalists, as well as the British public, but turned out to become a remarkable success (cf. Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition in 1912). Post-Impressionism "was supposed to express the artist's personal emotion, and, at the same time, to communicate a universal mental concept" (Christopher Reed).

Answer 2

Virginia Woolf wrote, "On or about December 1910 human character changed." This quote refers to the idea that the collective consciousness of humanity shifted around that time, leading to new ideas, perspectives, and attitudes that influenced society and culture. Woolf believed that this was a significant turning point in history.