WOMEN: AN INQUIRY THE HOGARTH ESSAYS I. MR. BENNETT AND MRS. BROWN. By VIRGINIA WOOLF. 2_s._ 6_d._ II. THE ARTIST AND PSYCHO-ANALYSIS. By ROGER FRY. 2_s._ 6_d._ III. HENRY JAMES AT WORK. By THEODORA BOSANQUET. 2_s._ 6_d._ IV. HOMAGE TO JOHN DRYDEN. By T. S. ELIOT. 3_s._ 6_d._ V. HISTRIOPHONE. By BONAMY DOBRÉE. 3_s._ 6_d._ VI. IN RETREAT. By HERBERT READ. 3_s._ 6_d._ VII. FEAR AND POLITICS: A DEBATE AT THE ZOO. By LEONARD WOOLF. 2_s._ 6_d._ VIII. CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUES OF POETRY. By ROBERT GRAVES. 3_s._ 6_d._ IX. THE CHARACTER OF JOHN DRYDEN. By ALAN LUBBOCK. 2_s._ 6_d._ X. WOMEN: An Inquiry. By WILLA MUIR. 2_s._ 6_d._ XI. POETRY AND CRITICISM. By EDITH SITWELL. 2_s._ 6_d._ WOMEN: AN INQUIRY BY WILLA MUIR Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press 52 Tavistock Square, London, W.C. 1 1925 TO VIOLET SCHIFF Printed in Great Britain by NEILL & CO., LTD., EDINBURGH “Methinks, brother,” replied my father, “you might, at least, know so much as the right end of a woman from the wrong.” _The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy._ WOMEN: AN INQUIRY INTRODUCTORY MEN and women are latecomers to this planet, but they have existed for a very long time, judged by human standards. One might reasonably expect the difference between them, if it is an essential difference, to be now capable of formulation. An essential difference would be a difference distinctively human, that is, spiritual as well as physical, and at the same time distinctively sexual.