A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas (Oxford World's Classics)
 

A Room of One's Own, and Three Guineas (Oxford World's Classics)

by Virginia Woolf

In A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf considers with energy and wit the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence. In A Room of One's Own (1929), she examines the work of past women writers, and looks ahead to a time when women's creativity will not be hampered by poverty, or by oppression. In Three Guineas (1938),... (read more)

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Lady Dixie
  • Rated 4 stars

Although this is often classified as a piece of feminist writing, Woolf disliked that term, preferring to call herself a humanist. Feminist thought certainly abounds, but I think this piece is just as much about carving out some space for yourself (whether you are male or female) so that you have something that feeds your soul.

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Alantie
  • Rated 2 stars

She has interesting thoughts and very good points on writing, but goes off on tangents and tells stories that seem to have nothing to do with the subject.

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  • Rated 4.036885 stars
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  • Rated 4.307693 stars
 

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  • Muawia Dafalla

    muawia dafalla said:

    Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf? I like Woolf's stream of consciousness as in Mrs. Dallowy and The Waves. Yet, this novel reminds me of another novel by Edward Morgan Forster's A Room with a View. Feminism is one of the issues handled by Woolf in a matchless style... hope to find time to read this book soon.

    posted Saturday, June 21 2008
  • daye

    daye said:

    mandatory reading

    posted Saturday, September 1 2007
  • EmilyRuth78

    emilyruth78 said:

    This is such an important book in modern feminist thought -- even if there are occassional historical slips (and she has some), Woolf has been influential in my own development as an adult, and as an independent thinker.

    posted Thursday, July 12 2007
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