A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own
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Author: Virginia Woolf
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1991-11-07
ISBN: 0151787336
Number of pages: 125
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company

Summary of A Room of One's Own

Why is it that men, and not women, have always had power, wealth, and fame? Woolf cites the two keys to freedom: fixed income and one?s own room. Foreword by Mary Gordon.

Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the architecture of sentences by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, all the while lampooning the chauvinistic state of university education in the England of her day. When she concluded that to achieve their full greatness as writers women will need a solid income and a privacy, Woolf pretty much invented modern feminist criticism.

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