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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 generally 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.OneBut, 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? I will try to explain. When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant. They might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austen; a tribute to the Brontës and a sketch of Haworth Parsonage under snow; some witticisms if possible about Miss Mitford; a respectful allusion to George Eliot; a reference to Mrs Gaskell and one would have done. But at second sight the words seemed not so simple. The title women and fiction might mean, and you may have meant it to mean, women and what they are like, or it might mean women and the fiction that they write; or it might mean women and the fiction that is written about them, or it might mean that somehow all three are inextricably mixed together and you want me to consider them in that light. But when I began to consider the subject in this last way, which seemed the most interesting, I soon saw that it had one fatal drawback. I should never be able to come to a conclusion. I should never be able to fulfil what is, I understand, the first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever. All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point—a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved. I have shirked the duty of coming to a conclusion upon these two questions—women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. But in order to make some amends I am going to do what I can to show you how I arrived at this opinion about the room and the money. I am going to develop in your presence as fully and freely as I can the train of thought which led me to think this. Perhaps if I lay bare the ideas, the prejudices, that lie behind this statement you will find that they have some bearing upon women and some upon fiction. At any rate, when a subject is highly controversial—and any question about sex is that—one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker. Fiction here is likely to contain more truth than fact. Therefore I propose, making use of all the liberties and licences of a novelist, to tell you the story of the two days that preceded my coming here—how, bowed down by the weight of the subject which you have laid upon my shoulders, I pondered it, and made it work in and out of my daily life. I need not say that what I am about to describe has no existence; Oxbridge is an invention; so is Fernham; 'I' is only a convenient term for somebody who has no real being. Lies will flow from my lips, but there may perhaps be some truth mixed up with them; it is for you to seek out this truth and to decide whether any part of it is worth keeping. If not,

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4 October 2020
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21.59 x 0.36 x 27.94 cm
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979-8693519336
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08KPWWSL6
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (4 October 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 62 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8693519336
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 21.59 x 0.36 x 27.94 cm

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- 12 in LGBTQ+ Literary Criticism
- 64 in Feminist Literary Criticism
- 89 in History & Criticism of Literature by Women

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VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels.

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chrisadamson

I must read this book Again

Reviewed in Australia on 21 February 2021

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I think Virginia Woolf, writes as a poet. She is still alive in her works. This book is valid today.

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Dido Wilson

An Important Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 December 2021

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I first read this book in my teens, and gained a great deal from it. Now I am in my 80s and it still speaks to me. It is a survey of the position of women in the modern world (that is to say, the world in 1928). It is of it's time, friendly, readable, and deeply important, which is what one might expect from one of the most eminent writers of her age.

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Bill H

It met one's expectations

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 March 2021

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Thoughtful stuff, and well worth a read. If only to look at which changes women have won in the last 100 years, and which required changes in society are still a work in (very slow) progress.

R C AYRES

Perfect present

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 February 2019

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Excellent book, perfect gift

Victoria Boal

Amazing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 September 2013

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Woolf's essay is clearly thought out. The way she structures her thoughts are incredible. If you have any second thoughts about feminism, I suggest you read this. It's a brilliant read, and several times makes you go 'oh!'

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i.g.nova

A classic, but this edition doesn't do it justice

Reviewed in Canada on 1 June 2016

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While Virginia Woolf's writing is as masterful as ever, this edition is not. I was disappointed to stumble across a good deal of errors and sloppy typesetting in the course of this book. I have the impression that it was a lazy OCR rip that the publishers didn't bother correcting.

I had the misfortune to stumble across a superior double-volume of A Room of One's Own and its sequel, Three Guineas, for a couple of bucks in my local used book store a few weeks after I bought this. Curses.

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