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A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

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A Room of One's Own

by Virginia Woolf
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A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own

Feminist exploration of women's creative identity.

"A Room of One's Own" resonates with anyone striving for personal space and the freedom to create. Virginia Woolf's eloquent prose weaves through history, literature, and social commentary, inspiring readers to consider the relationship between gender, autonomy, and art. Her insights remain poignant, igniting conversations about equality and the necessity of a personal haven for artistic expression.

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A Room of One's Own

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ISBN: 9780241436288
Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
Date of Publication: 2020-07-30
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Creative Nonfiction, Philosophy
Related Topics: Essays, Classics
Goodreads rating: 4.22
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A Room of One's Own, grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë and why neither of them could have written War and Peace, over the silent fate of Shakespeare gifted (and imaginary) sister, over the effects of poverty and chastity on female creativity, she gives us one of the greatest feminist polemics of the century.
 

Feminist exploration of women's creative identity.

"A Room of One's Own" resonates with anyone striving for personal space and the freedom to create. Virginia Woolf's eloquent prose weaves through history, literature, and social commentary, inspiring readers to consider the relationship between gender, autonomy, and art. Her insights remain poignant, igniting conversations about equality and the necessity of a personal haven for artistic expression.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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