A Room of One's Own

2024-05-30 Literary Collections

Author : Virginia Woolf
Release : 2024-05-30
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis A Room of One's Own by : Virginia Woolf

Download or read book A Room of One's Own written by Virginia Woolf. This book was released on 2024-05-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf's playful exploration of a satirical »Oxbridge« became one of the world's most groundbreaking writings on women, writing, fiction, and gender. A Room of One's Own [1929] can be read as one or as six different essays, narrated from an intimate first-person perspective. Actual history blends with narrative and memoir. But perhaps most revolutionary was its address: the book is written by a woman for women. Male readers are compelled to read through women's eyes in a total inversion of the traditional male gaze. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.

The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time

2018 Literary Criticism

Author : Robert McCrum
Release : 2018
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time by : Robert McCrum

Download or read book The 100 Best Nonfiction Books of All Time written by Robert McCrum. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1611 with the King James Bible and ending in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction', this extraordinary voyage through the written treasures of our culture examines universally-acclaimed classics such as Pepys' 'Diaries', Charles Darwin's 'The Origin of Species', Stephen Hawking's 'A Brief History of Time' and a whole host of additional works --

An Analysis of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own

2017-07-05 Art

Author : Tim Smith-Laing
Release : 2017-07-05
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis An Analysis of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own by : Tim Smith-Laing

Download or read book An Analysis of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own written by Tim Smith-Laing. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Room of One's Own is a very clear example of how creative thinkers connect and present things in novel ways. Based on the text of a talk given by Virginia Woolf at an all-female Cambridge college, Room considers the subject of 'women and fiction.' Woolf’s approach is to ask why, in the early 20th century, literary history presented so few examples of canonically 'great' women writers. The common prejudices of the time suggested this was caused by (and proof of) women's creative and intellectual inferiority to men. Woolf argued instead that it was to do with a very simple fact: across the centuries, male-dominated society had systematically prevented women from having the educational opportunities, private spaces and economic independence to produce great art. At a time when 'art' was commonly considered to be a province of the mind that had no relation to economic circumstances, this was a novel proposal. More novel, though, was Woolf's manner of arguing and proving her contentions: through a fictional account of the limits placed on even the most privileged women in everyday existence. An impressive early example of cultural materialism, A Room of One's Own is an exemplary encapsulation of creative thinking.

Shakespeare's Sister

2000 Fiction

Author : Virginia Woolf
Release : 2000
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book Shakespeare's Sister written by Virginia Woolf. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf. The third chapter of Woolf's essay "A Room of One's Own," based on two lectures the author gave to female students at Cambridge in 1928 on the topic of women and fiction. 36 pages. Tale Blazers.

Women Who Wrote

2020-06-09 Fiction

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Release : 2020-06-09
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis Women Who Wrote by : Louisa May Alcott

Download or read book Women Who Wrote written by Louisa May Alcott. This book was released on 2020-06-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the women who wrote. They wrote against all odds. Some wrote defiantly; some wrote desperately. Some wrote while trapped within the confines of status and wealth. Some wrote hand-to-mouth in abject poverty. Some wrote trapped in a room of their father’s house, and some went in search of a room of their own. They had lovers and families. They were sometimes lonely. Many wrote anonymously or under a pseudonym for a world not yet ready for their genius and talent. We know many of their names—Austen and Alcott, Brontë and Browning, Wheatley and Woolf—though some may be less familiar. They are here, waiting to introduce themselves. They marched through the world one by one or in small sisterhoods, speaking to each other and to us over distances of place and time. Pushing back against the boundaries meant to keep us in our place, they carved enough space for themselves to write. They made space for us to follow. Here they are gathered together, an army of women who wrote and an arsenal of words to inspire us. They walk with us as we forge our own paths forward. These women wrote to change the world. The perfect keepsake gift for the reader in your life Anthology of stories and poems Book length: approximately 90,000 words

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