A Room of One's Own
Assigned by 2 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1929
- Form
- Essay
- Language
- English
- Length
- Short · 115 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Moderate2 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendA Room of One's OwnHarcourt (Harvest), 1989The standard American paperback, with Mary Gordon's foreword.
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An extended essay based on two lectures Woolf gave to women students at Cambridge in 1928. Its thesis is that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Woolf's narrator is turned off the lawn and away from the library of a men's college, compares the food at the men's and women's colleges, reads what men have written about women in the British Museum, and imagines what would have happened to a sister of Shakespeare with his gifts. She surveys women writers from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen and calls for an androgynous mind.
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