A Room of One's Own is an essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1929. The title comes from the author's theory that 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction'. It's considered an important feminist text and discusses how woman have been historically kept from writing because of constraints imposed upon them by the dominant patriarchy. The essay is based on a c...
Virginia Woolf - A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
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A Room of One's Own is an essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1929. The title comes from the author's theory that 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction'. It's considered an important feminist text and discusses how woman have been historically kept from writing because of constraints imposed upon them by the dominant patriarchy. The essay is based on a couple of lectures that Woolf gave at two women's colleges at the University of Cambridge.