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A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf.

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Essay by Virginia Woolf, published in 1929. The work was based on two lectures given by the author in 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, Cambridge. Woolf addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular, in this famous essay which asserts that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write. Woolf celebrates the work of women writers, including Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontes. In the final section Woolf suggests that great minds are androgynous. She argues that intellectual freedom requires financial freedom, and she entreats her audience to write not only fiction but poetry, criticism, and scholarly works as well. The essay, written in lively, graceful prose, displays the same impressive descriptive powers evident in Woolf's novels and reflects her compelling conversational style. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780586044490
  • ISBN: 0586044493
  • Physical Description: 123 pages ; 18 cm.
  • Publisher: Hammersmith, London, UK : Grafton, 1977.
Subject: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 > Authorship.
Literature > Women authors > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Women and literature > Great Britain.
Women authors > Economic conditions.
Women authors > Social conditions.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
Literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women authors > Economic conditions.
Women authors > Social conditions.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.

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