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A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf
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About this book

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered non-fiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780141018980
ISBN10 0141018984
Series/Work OL39379W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Penguin
Pages 144
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At April 18, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Art d'écrire Authorship British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author) British Women authors Conditions économiques Conditions sociales Différences entre sexes Economic conditions Écrits de femmes Écrivaines English fiction English literature Feminism Feminist theory Femmes Femmes dans la littérature Femmes écrivains Femmes et littérature FICTION Fiction, history and criticism

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