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A Room of One's Own
 First edition cover | |
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Vanessa Bell (first edition) |
| Subject | Feminism, women, literature, education |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, England, Harcourt Brace & Co., United States |
Publication date | September 1929 |
| Publication place | England |
| Pages | 172 (Hogarth Press first edition) |
| OCLC | 470314057 |
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929.[1] The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women's colleges at the University of Cambridge.[2][3]
In her essay, Woolf uses metaphors to explore social injustices and comments on women's lack of free expression. Her metaphor of a fish explains her most essential point, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction".[2] She writes of a woman whose thought had "let its line down into the stream".[4] As the woman starts to think of an idea, a guard enforces a rule whereby women are not allowed to walk on the grass. Abiding by the rule, the woman loses her idea.[5]
- ^ Woolf, Virginia (1935) [1929]. A Room of One's Own. London: Hogarth Press. p. 4. For a different date, see "FAQ: A Room of One's Own Publication History". Virginia Woolf Seminar. University of Alabama in Huntsville. 20 January 1998. p. 1. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012.
- ^ a b Woolf 1935, p. 5.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. United Kingdom: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. pp. 3–4.
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