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A room of one's own : abridged

Originally published in 1929, this work offers up Virginia Wolfe's fascinating look at women literature that features her signature style as well as smart insight.

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  • "Originally published in 1929, this work offers up Virginia Wolfe's fascinating look at women literature that features her signature style as well as smart insight."@en
  • "Jane Bates reads Virginia Woolf's A room of one's own, a revised presentation of Woolf's speech given to a women's college in 1928, where she talked about her entry into the literary world and her ideas on women's participation in western culture."@en
  • "In addressing the question of women and fiction, the author explores the lack of equal opportunity for women. She describes a tour of Oxbridge, a mythical English university, and the obstacles to education a woman encounters there. She concludes that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.""
  • "In addressing the question of women and fiction, the author explores the lack of equal opportunity for women. She describes a tour of Oxbridge, a mythical English university, and the obstacles to education a woman encounters there. She concludes that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.""
  • "In addressing the question of women and fiction, the author explores the lack of equal opportunity for women. She describes a tour of Oxbridge, a mythical English university, and the obstacles to education a woman encounters there. She concludes that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.""@en
  • "Describes the domestic obligations, social limitations, and economic factors which impede literary creativity in women."@en
  • "This essay is based on two papers read to the Arts Soceity at Newnham and the Odtaa at Girton in October 1928. -unp. [The author] takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one: women must have a fixed income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create. -Back cover."
  • "A reading of excerpts from the essay."@en
  • "Virginia Woolf's investigation of the woman artist as a writer. Speculating on the imaginary life of Shakespeare's equally talented sister, she posits the necessity of "a room of one's own" (and a fixed income) for the writer to pursue her craft."

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