A Room of Ones Own - Virginia Woolf
Category: Lecture
Tags: Lecture, Adults
Publisher: Canongate Books Release date: August 3, 2011 Duration: 05:02:55, A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction . . . First published in 1929, A Room of Ones Own is Virginia Woolfs pioneering work on women in literature. An accessible yet fiercely astute polemic, it is a crystallization of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austens pandering to a male writing style, to imagining the dreadful fate of Shakespeares talented, intelligent sister, Woolf makes the topic an enjoyable journey through her imagination, filling in for the undocumented in female history, and exploring the loss to the literary landscape in her own entertaining, convincing prose., This 1929 essay is perhaps the authors most important workpart feminist manifesto, part literary theory and part personal reflection presaging her suicide., It is based on a lecture given at Girt
