A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf(1929)
Essayc. 130 pages
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
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by Virginia Woolf(1929)
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Virginia Woolf(1929)
Woolf was asked to lecture on women and fiction, and what emerged was this extended essay, discursive and personal and angry beneath its graceful surface. A woman must have money and a room of her own: the material conditions that make creative work possible. Woolf imagines Shakespeare's sister, equally gifted, and traces the impossibility of her life. The argument is now foundational, but the prose is what makes it live: the sudden digressions, the flickers of humor, the voice that seems to be thinking alongside you.