In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens by Alice Walker and A Room of One's Own by Virginia WoolfIt is interesting to contrast the points of view by Alice Walker and Virgina Woolf on the same subject. These writers show how versatile the English language can be. Alice Walker was born in 1944 as a farm girl in Georgia. Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882. They both became highly recognized writers of their time and both have quite a large portfolio of works. The scenes they were able to see and experience growing up may have greatly influenced their views on the subjects they both seem to write about. In her essay “In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens,” Alice Walker first discusses the untouchable faith of black women in the post-Reconstruction South. She praises the faith and eternal hope of these women and their families. She even comes to recognize them as saints since she describes their faith as “so intense, so deep, so unconscious that they themselves were not aware of the wealth they held” (Walker 694). In a passage where she discusses the treatment and social status of 16th-century women, Woolf explains that a woman who might have had a truly great gift at that time "would surely have gone mad, committed suicide, or ended up committing suicide." ". in a lonely cottage outside the town, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked" (Woolf 749). Her use of some of these powerful nominatives shows that she is deeply committed to what she is writing. For She too, life growing up and the stories she was able to hear may have greatly influenced this passage. In her passage, she imagines what it might have been like if William Shakespeare had had a sister. it would be difficult even if... middle of paper ...... in the first person and imagines the South very easily because of how descriptive it is in its narration The reader of Woolf's essay can. clearly understand and realize the injustice and outright cruelty of the sheer neglect of the hidden talents in many women throughout time She does this simply by telling a good story. Perhaps this shows that Virginia. Woolf loved Walker's work. Woolf chooses to clearly state and agree with the same points made by Walker and show the ideas in a different light, because indeed, she is a different person with different attributes. This appears dominantly in his rewriting of Walker's “In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens.” Works Cited: Walker, Alice. In search of our mother's gardens. New York: Harcourt Brace Javanovich, 1983. Woolf, Virginia. A room of your own. San Diego, CA: Harvest-HBJ, 1989.