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A Room of One's Own
By Virginia WoolfPublisher Description
The celebrated author of To the Lighthouse examines the role of women in literature in this critical essay that paved the way for modern feminism.
During the week of the release of her novel Orlando, author Virginia Woolf gave two lectures at the University of Cambridge on the subject of “women and fiction.” Those talks served as the basis for this extended essay.
In “A Room of One’s Own,” Woolf offers a feminist critique of society as she discusses women’s history in literature and writing. She imagines if William Shakespeare had a sister who was just as smart and talented as he was. Yet given the nature of society in Shakespeare’s era, she doesn’t have the means to express her creativity and thus dies without writing down a word. Ultimately Woolf argues that women must have intellectual and financial freedom: “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”Download the free Fable app
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“An incredibly well written speech. There are so many good points I struggle to distill them into a review, but this is one of the most level headed yet firm responses to the patriarchal culture war that I’ve ever seen. This should be required reading for all - especially men. Woolf voices something I’ve always thought: the insistence of men to defend their toxic masculinity by separating themselves from anything deemed feminine, including respecting women and embracing emotion and intuition, prevents them from experiencing the full range of life, love, self & art. To try and divest one’s self completely from the other sex will always fail you intellectually and spiritually; you need unity between both energies to be at peace & make honest art. I’m so lucky and thankful to all the women who came before me that struggled and suffered just for my right to read and learn and post this review, let alone enter libraries without a male chaperone. Long live Virginia Woolf. — “Possibly when the professor insisted a little emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority.””Original writingImmersive settingThought-provokingMisogyny
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Beautifully writtenDescriptive writingOriginal writingRealistic settingComing of ageThought-provoking
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About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), an English modernist, has been heralded as one of the greatest female writers of all time. In 1915, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, which became known for its peculiar narrative perspectives and free-association prose. She followed this up with several famous novels such as Mrs. Dalloway and Jacob’s Room, as well as the feminist essay A Room of One’s Own. Woolf suffered from depression and committed suicide in 1941.
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