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Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own by [Woolf, Virginia]

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by Virginia Woolf (Author), Marciano Guerrero (Editor)

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In a lengthy essay, the narrator explores how the different educational experiences privilege men over women. Spending a day in the British Museum Library perusing the scholarship on women, she concludes that most of it —if not all— had been written by men in anger and hostility. The study of history was of no help. So she constructs in her own imagination what she imagines was the plight of women; to this effort she explains the impediments Judith Shakespeare —Shakespeare’s sister— would have encountered.
She then analyses the achievements of the major women novelists of the nineteenth century, reflecting on the importance of tradition to an aspiring writer. Following up with living writers, she takes a close look at a novel by one of the narrator’s contemporaries.
Using a curious metaphor: “a spot the size of a shilling at the back of the head,” she urges women to be original, and to write about what others don’t see and miss; and that the writing must be smooth and clear: “Not a wheel must grate, not a light glimmer.” In one word: writing that is incandescent.
The problem as Woof sees it is that to accomplish that fine writing a woman must first achieve intellectual freedom as granted by having a room of one’s own and five hundred a year in income.

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File Size: 368 KB
Print Length: 96 pages
Publication Date: May 7, 2013
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00CP9KSFQ
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TeacherLeeez

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December 13, 2014

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First Virginia Woolf book, good addition to my feminist literature collection.

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jerry c. newgord

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November 5, 2015

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arrived with minor cover damage

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Woolf's critical essay

March 20, 2014

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Anything by Miss Virginia Woolf is great. She has great use of imagery and symbolism to get her point across.

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book light

sentences were too long, but well written, read ...

November 4, 2014

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sentences were too long, but well written, read this because a friend suggested I try Virginia. Not much for British writers.

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desiree prado

Never Ending Thought

February 25, 2014

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Not very well structred its a stream of consiousness if you like that well then you have the right book.

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Ray

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November 17, 2014

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Read it for western civilization 2 it was slow and very hard to stay awake

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Hal Biggerstaff

A room of Ones Own

December 20, 2013

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I found this a difficult book to read, I know I was supposed to be impressed with it, but if wasn't.

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read it just to say I had

November 17, 2013

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It's an important piece in the feminist history. i really don't see the relevance to today. it didn't even inspire me to be a writer.

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