Virgina Woolf's A Room of One's Own is believed to be one of the most important feminist texts of the 20th century. Based on a speech she gave to the all-female Girton College at Cambridge University, the essay explores the idea of 'Women and Fiction' and how 'five hundred pounds a year and a room o...
I wouldn't have gotten much out of this book if I hadn't gone to graduate school -- not because the book is difficult or obtuse, but for the entirely personal reason that graduate school in the Midwest was my first real encounter with the persistence of the sexist views Woolf describes. Growing up ...
A mess of one’s one. That’s it. The sum total of my ambition. No wild pipe dream like a whole room, just a little bit of a room that is mine and I’ll know it is mine because it will have MY mess on it. I lived for a long time with a person who was a compulsive cleaner and tidier. He would occasional...
I love the way Woolf's sentences flow. She writes as though putting one's thoughts to paper is the easiest thing in the world.While I recognize that this book is seminal and important, it also exposes her prejudices. It makes the book a bit less pleasant to read, but her writing saves it.
I must confess I came to read the book not because I was in the mood for Virginia Woolf's prose, but because I was listening to Shakespears Sister's Stay a few weeks ago and I was wondering how they chose their name. So, thanks to Google, I made the right connections and I ended up reading this on...
An essay I've always loved. Much of Woolf doesn't speak to me, but the idea of Shakespeare having a sister whose talent also needs nurture--well, it does.
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