Virginia Woolf Library A Room of One's Own (Annotated), (Paperback)

from kjforester

As a woman who has longed to write but never been able to distinguish herself from those around her, this essay resonates. At certain times in the book, I felt like I was sitting in the room listening to her say, "But almost without exception they [women] are shown in their relation to men...And ...

from mistycliff

There is no summary of this essay that will do it justice so I'll simply say, "Read it". When I picked up Woolf's essay, I thought I'd be in for a feminist rant. After all, it has been hailed as one of those amazing, post-suffrage bits on how women relate to the world and to men. If it had been, ...

from bookworm12

This famous publication originated as a series of lectures given by Woolf at two women's colleges in 1928. She talked about women's role in literature and their potential for creation vs. their actual ability to produce based on their status and income. She gives the wonderful example of William ...

from rainpebble

I finished A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf this morning. my thoughts and comments: What a lovely book. It is an essay on why men were always more intelligent than women; on why men were always better writers than women; on why men wrote and women didn't; on why men were educated and women w...

from aegossman

I just re-read this and I think it means more to me know that I am a father. No, I am not a father of a daughter yet. When I recently read the Autobiography of Malcolm X I thought it would be essential for me to encourage my newborn son, in years to come, to read. I have a bit of a pile- Walden P...