"The Spirit of the Age": Virginia Woolf's Response to Second Wave Psychology

Second wave psychological ideas have helped Virginia Woolf in her writings, especially in two of her earliest novels, 'The Voyage Out' and 'Night and Day.' The novels both show the implications of the protagonists' attempts to grapple with the repressions of youth as imposed on them by society, family and their roles as women. This is not surprising, as Woolf was clearly reared in which current psychological and philosophical ideas were being discussed.