From “A room of One’s own”, by Virginia Woolf
Asunder – adverb. Adjective
Definition: into separate parts; in or into pieces.
http://m.dictionary.com/definition/asunder
From page 6 of 13: ” so tortured and pulled asunder by her own contrary instincts, that she must have lost her health and sanity to a certainty.”
After defining this word I now understand the context it was used in. Because women were not allow to display their talents like most man without being “hindered by other people”, this mad them into two people. The artist and the women society wants.
