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A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf

Start date: March 1, 2018

Finish date: March 30, 2018

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May 09, 2018 Megan rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This was a brilliant essay/novella on women in fiction, creativity, and the need for a room of one's own. Some of her points are still very very valid, while some are a bit dated (because of feminist historians, we know about a lot more women writers than she did), but definitely worthwhile, inspiring reading. Her definition of a good/successful novel is a bit different than mine, but that's just a difference in schools of literary criticism (the time period thing again). Her allegory about Shak ...more

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Apr 14, 2020 Melania 🍒 rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, classics

4.25|5 📝 2020 TBR

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Nov 16, 2019 Puck rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, nonfiction, rory-gilmore-challenge

“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.”

Why did I wait so long to read this? Well...perhaps I needed to be at this age to properly understand Woolf's words, but oh wow, how much truth there is in them. This essay is a feminist classic for a reason, and in 2019 still speaks so powerful, so critical and kind..definitely one every person should read once.

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