A Room of One's Own
Written by Virginia Woolf
Narrated by Sinead Dixon
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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 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.
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf was born in 1882, the youngest daughter of the Victorian writer Leslie Stephen. After her father's death, Virginia moved with her sister Vanessa (later Vanessa Bell) and two of her brothers, to 46 Gordon Square, which was to be the first meeting place of the Bloomsbury Group. Virginia married Leonard Woolf in 1912, and together they established the Hogarth Press. Virginia also published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1912, and she subsequently wrote eight more, several of which are considered classics, as well as two books of seminal feminist thought. Woolf suffered from mental illness throughout her life and committed suicide in 1941.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazingly relevant to the modern world. I can't believe I've only just read this!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This short book should be required reading in every high school curriculum. There is simply no excuse, this book having been written, that misogyny should continue. The reason that it does is that our culture refuses the education this text provides. Not misses, not mistakenly overlooks, refuses.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Intricate, immaculate, articulate.
If anyone ever makes a snarky comment about women's contribution to literature and invention, just send this their way - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I always send half of this essay thinking "Just great to the point already" and the other half thinking "Excellent observation!" It's a classic with the read but it's a casual meandering to get to the point.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I cannot believe I've never read this book! It made my heart and mind burst into moments of happiness and realization. My mind has not stopped.
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