A Room of One's Own
2012 Reprint of Original 1929 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "A Room of One's Own" is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published in 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College...
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2012 Reprint of Original 1929 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "A Room of One's Own" is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published in 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 employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled "Women and Fiction", and hence the essay, are considered non-fiction. The essay is generally seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781614272779 (1614272778)
ASIN: 1614272778
Publish date: April 4th 2012
Publisher: Martino Fine Books
Pages no: 114
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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