A Room of One’s Own (1929)
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4.2 • 146 Ratings
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Publisher Description
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", which was published in Forum March 1929, 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.
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This book hits hard and I am not lying when I say that it’s ruthless and slaps quietly right on your face. Women had been a subject of so many things in so many ways that how can you not think of one while consciously determining the other. This is a beautiful piece of writing to know why there wasn’t a room of one’s own and how every step advancing towards it had been lashed with many questions. The past weaves our present and women have been constantly trying to get better at it.