A room of ones own virginia woolf

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.

With email inboxes always overflowing, social media accounts to keep up with, and a cellphone that gives everyone a little more access to you than they should have, we all get a little busy sometimes. Then, however, there’s a whole other class of…

'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…

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…

In October 1928 Virginia Woolf was asked to deliver speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on the subject of ‘Women and Fiction’; she spoke about her conviction that ‘a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction’. The following year, the two speeches were published as A RoomContinue reading →

Virginia Woolf’s covers are unabashedly recognizable by virtue of the fact that they were all designed by her sister, Vanessa Bell.

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Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own. "...give a woman a yearly income and a room of her own and you will have a poet (or an artist)."