The figure of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the text is often read as an analogue for other female intellectuals, like Woolf herself, who suffered from illness, feigned or real, as a part of their status as female writers.
伊丽莎白·巴雷特·勃朗宁在本书中的形象往往被解读为其他女性知识分子的相似人物,像伍尔夫本人一样，患有疾病,真真假假,是作为一个女性作家地位的一部分。