- Authorship, Economic conditions, Feminism, Feminist theory
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.
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- Author
- Virginia Woolf
- First published
- 1929
- Pages
- 143
- Publisher
- Gyldendal, Clarke, Irwin & Co., Independently Published
- Editions
- 303
- Language
- Spanish, Chinese, tur, dan
- ISBN
- 9798780440239
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“But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction-what has that go to do with a room of one's own?”
Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, epistler, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ([Source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf).) [Comment from Ursula Le Guin on The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice): > You can't write science fiction well if you haven't read it, though not all who try to write it know this. But nor can you write it well if you haven't read anything else. Genre is a rich dialect, in which you can say certain things in a particularly satisfying way, but if it gives up connection with the general
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