From the Bookshelf of Around the Year in 52 Books …
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Read this book! It is short, incisive, accessible, eminently quotable, and written in Virginia Woolf's marvellous, flowing prose.
Woolf has written this long essay in 1928 as a two-part speech on "Women and Fiction", delivered at a women's college. While researching the topic, she finds herself confronted with women's general poor, uneducated, suppressed state as the main hi ...more
Woolf has written this long essay in 1928 as a two-part speech on "Women and Fiction", delivered at a women's college. While researching the topic, she finds herself confronted with women's general poor, uneducated, suppressed state as the main hi ...more
3.5 stars.
Feb 11, 2017
Marie (UK)
rated it
really liked it
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
2017-reading-challenge
Virginia Woolf's peroration on Women and fiction centres on her view that to be able to write one needs £500 a year and a room of one's own. Yet it is much more than this and urges women (but not only women) to write and write well on any and all subjects. To make use of the freedoms that they have earnt and not to use the difficulties in obtaining these as excuses for not writing. It is an excellent treatise that might seem difficult to start with but contains messages as important today as the
...more
Mar 02, 2015
Ceci
marked it as to-read
Jul 20, 2015
Katt Hansen
marked it as to-read
Aug 04, 2015
Sarah McCauley
marked it as to-read
Jan 08, 2016
Heather Hadley
marked it as to-read
Oct 07, 2016
Paula S
marked it as to-read
Nov 05, 2016
Hannah Peterson
marked it as to-read
Jan 14, 2017
Charlie
marked it as to-read
Apr 19, 2017
Syncione
rated it
it was amazing
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
audio,
non-fiction
Dec 19, 2017
Kindra
marked it as to-read
Apr 17, 2018
Sally
marked it as to-read
Mar 30, 2023
jordan chaffee
rated it
liked it
·
review of another edition
Shelves:
book-kindle,
2023
Aug 28, 2018
Tammy
marked it as to-read
May 24, 2020
Duygu
marked it as to-read
Jun 11, 2020
Heather
marked it as to-read
Aug 12, 2020
Karigan
marked it as to-read
Jul 23, 2022
Donna
marked it as to-read
Jan 16, 2023
Lena84
marked it as to-read
