A Room of One's Own
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781615582907 (1615582908)
Publish date: December 21st 1989
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 132
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Language,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Feminism,
Philosophy,
Womens,
Gender
Strange essay, it seems part historic overview, part thought-experiment, and part satire. But it has some thought-provoking sections, and is well worth a read.
an amazing read. ♥"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."Woolf has been asked to speak on the topic of women and Fiction, her thesis is that ( a woman should have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction).She explores and investigates the history of...
My first Virginia Woolf. It was very interesting. That first half though? Good grief. It was a rambling, meandering mess. I fell asleep three times trying to get through it.The middle portion of the book is excellent. Some of her views sadly still apply today. How women are considered inferior, how ...
I finished this book. That is just about all I can say for it. It was tedious and confusing and really just a bunch of Woolf bathering on about things I really wasn't interested in.
Summary: A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact em...
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