Reading path
Woolf's Room
The sound of doors opening. Women writing themselves into existence, against silence, against expectation, against centuries of being told to sit down. What begins as a literature of confinement becomes, work by work, a literature of liberation. Furious and tender in equal measure, this path traces one of the great arcs in all of literature: the claiming of a voice that was always there.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. The Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892
- 2. A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen, 1879
- 3. Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë, 1847
- 4. Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë, 1847
- 5. MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot, 1872
- 6. A Room of One's OwnVirginia Woolf, 1929
- 7. Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf, 1925
- 8. OrlandoVirginia Woolf, 1928
- 9. To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf, 1927
- 10. The WavesVirginia Woolf, 1931
- 11. Wide Sargasso SeaJean Rhys, 1966
- 12. The Second SexSimone de Beauvoir, 1949
- 13. The Bell JarSylvia Plath, 1963
- 14. DaddySylvia Plath, 1965
- 15. The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood, 1985
- 16. HousekeepingMarilynne Robinson, 1980
- 17. BelovedToni Morrison, 1987
- 18. The Golden NotebookDoris May Lessing, 1962
- 19. Gaudy NightDorothy L. Sayers, 1935
- 20. Hombres necios que acusáis (Redondillas / "You Foolish Men")Juana Inés de la Cruz, 1689
- 21. The Copenhagen TrilogyTiina Nunnally, Michael Favala Goldman, Tove Ditlevsen, 1967
- 22. ShirleyCharlotte Brontë, 1849
- 23. The Life of Charlotte BrontëElizabeth Gaskell, 1857
- 24. The Tenant of Wildfell HallAnne Brontë, 1848
- 25. RuthElizabeth Gaskell, 1853