A room of ones own

From "Beloved" to "Jane Eyre," the 48 classics in this list are just some of the best books by women authors that you should read in your lifetime.

It’s no secret that Virginia Woolf is one of my favorite authors. I use a Virginia Woolf tote bag every day just to prove it! Her fiction works are like poetry on the page and she so richly e…

Cover drawing by Paul Hogarth. Penguin Books Modern Classics reprint paperback (1963).

This Wednesdsay, we will begin discussing Virginia Woolf’s two expanded lectures that she revised into the six chapters of A Room of One’s Own, a hugely important text in the field of women’s liter…

Woolf's long essay about society and art and sexism is thoroughly of its time and timeless. She argues that a woman must have money and a room of her own (literally and figuratively) in order to write well. It's a little slow to get into but keep at it: this is one of Woolf's most accessible and rew

This study guide and infographic for Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own offer summary and analysis on themes, symbols, and other literary devices found in the text. Explore Course Hero's library of literature materials, including documents and Q&A pairs.

A Room of One's Own, Virginia Wolf (1929)

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'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?' A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928 and became a landmark work of feminist thought. Covering everything from why a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write, to authors such as Jane Austen, Aphra Behn and the Brontë sisters, and the tragic story of Shakespeare's…