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- Paperback: 114 pages ;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.34 x 7.96 x 5.33
- Publisher: Harvest Books; ;
Reissue edition (January 1990)
- ISBN: 0156787334
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Surprisingly,
this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of
Woolf's most accessible works.
Woolf, a
major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet
conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the
history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the
architecture of sentences by the likes of William
Shakespeare and Jane Austen, all the while lampooning the
chauvinistic state of university education in the England of
her day.
When she concluded that to achieve
their full greatness as writers women will need a solid income
and a privacy, Woolf pretty much invented modern feminist
criticism.
Book
Description
Virginia
Woolf is one of the 20th century's great innovative writers. She
was a member of the Bloomsbury group in pre-WW I England.
A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN is her
investigation of the woman artist as a writer. Speculating on
the imaginary life of Shakespeare's equally talented sister, she
posits the necessity of "a room of one's own" (and a
fixed income) for the writer to pursue her craft.
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