A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
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This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First published on 24 October 1929, the extended essay was based on a series of lectures delivered by Virginia Woolf at Cambridge University in October 1928. While it 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 non-fiction. - Summary by Cori Samuel
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Grande-Bretagne, Great Britain, EnglandShowing 11 featured editions. View all 302 editions?
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A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics)
February 28, 2002, Penguin Books Ltd
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A Room of One's Own ('Zi ji de fang jian', in traditional Chinese, NOT in English)
January 1, 2000, Tian Pei
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A room of one's own: and, Three guineas
1998, Oxford University Press
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Women & fiction: the manuscript versions of A room of one's own
1992, Published for the Shakespeare Head Press by Blackwell Publishers, Three Cambridge Center
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A room of one's own
1957, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
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"But, 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?"
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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.
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