A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
Trigger warnings: discussions of misogyny? That's about all, really. 3.5 stars.I've been meaning to read something by Virginia Woolf for a long time now, so I put this on my Classics Club list to make sure that I finally DID read something of hers. (Well. Technically I put A Room of One's Own on my list. The copy that my library had just so happened to include Three Guineas as well, so I read that too.) Anyway. A Room of One's Own came out of lectures that Woolf delivered in the late 1920s.
A great heritage. Everything that seems old-fashioned is forgotten as soon as we start discussing about how many things are still true.
I've only ever read selection of this before and I always meant to go back and read the whole thing. Now that I've finally managed to do that I am elated that I did. It is utterly fantastic and urges women to get out there and do something, especially in the final pages; to go out and write something if only for the women who never had a chance in hell thanks to their circumstances and the ideas of the time. I wonder what Woolf would think of the current day. Certainly we are doing this and more
5 stars for 'A Room of One's Own', which I had already read and is one of my favourite books. However, I was less enchanted by Three Guineas, which I was reading for the first time and to which the 3 stars are directed. Although Woolf's polemic was interesting and well written, I did not find it as compelling or interesting as 'A Room of One's Own', which I found a shame. Obviously, its contents are important and have an undeniable place in history, but there was something that just could not
Such a meaningful reading experience. This is my second time reading A Room of One's Own and I cannot recommend it enough, even if you don't enjoy Virginia Woolf's novels. Three Guineas is much more complex to understand (at times confusing), but there are still many great lessons to take from it.
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." This book contains two of Woolf's non-fiction works both of which focus on women, particularly women writers - their role in society, the historical context, the future possibilities. Woolf is one of my favorite authors, something about her writing invariably moves me. In these works I was spellbound by her writing as well, which is saying something given they are non-fiction. My enjoyment of this book can be largely
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Title | : | A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas |
Author | : | Virginia Woolf |
Book Format | : | Paperback |
Book Edition | : | Oxford World's Classics, Omnibus |
Pages | : | Pages: 480 pages |
Published | : | May 7th 1998 by Oxford University Press (first published June 1938) |
Categories | : | Classics. Nonfiction. Feminism. Writing. Essays |
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In these texts, Virginia Woolf considers 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), however, Woolf argues that women's historical exclusion offers them the chance to form a political and cultural identity which could challenge the drive towards fascism and war.Identify Books During A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
Original Title: | A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas |
ISBN: | 0192834843 (ISBN13: 9780192834843) |
Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.17 From 3107 Users | 229 ReviewsRate Epithetical Books A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
I cannot help smiling at the first memory of this volume. I was at tenth grade and my IELTS exam was approaching. Maybe because of that, I was frantically trying to switch to reading in English. Having wandered among the bookshelves for almost an hour, always conscious of how little money I had, I was hopelessly heading for the exit. But social anxiety got better of me. Salesperson should have thought I am a thief; I had to buy something.Collins Classics seemed about a nice option -- they wereTrigger warnings: discussions of misogyny? That's about all, really. 3.5 stars.I've been meaning to read something by Virginia Woolf for a long time now, so I put this on my Classics Club list to make sure that I finally DID read something of hers. (Well. Technically I put A Room of One's Own on my list. The copy that my library had just so happened to include Three Guineas as well, so I read that too.) Anyway. A Room of One's Own came out of lectures that Woolf delivered in the late 1920s.
A great heritage. Everything that seems old-fashioned is forgotten as soon as we start discussing about how many things are still true.
I've only ever read selection of this before and I always meant to go back and read the whole thing. Now that I've finally managed to do that I am elated that I did. It is utterly fantastic and urges women to get out there and do something, especially in the final pages; to go out and write something if only for the women who never had a chance in hell thanks to their circumstances and the ideas of the time. I wonder what Woolf would think of the current day. Certainly we are doing this and more
5 stars for 'A Room of One's Own', which I had already read and is one of my favourite books. However, I was less enchanted by Three Guineas, which I was reading for the first time and to which the 3 stars are directed. Although Woolf's polemic was interesting and well written, I did not find it as compelling or interesting as 'A Room of One's Own', which I found a shame. Obviously, its contents are important and have an undeniable place in history, but there was something that just could not
Such a meaningful reading experience. This is my second time reading A Room of One's Own and I cannot recommend it enough, even if you don't enjoy Virginia Woolf's novels. Three Guineas is much more complex to understand (at times confusing), but there are still many great lessons to take from it.
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." This book contains two of Woolf's non-fiction works both of which focus on women, particularly women writers - their role in society, the historical context, the future possibilities. Woolf is one of my favorite authors, something about her writing invariably moves me. In these works I was spellbound by her writing as well, which is saying something given they are non-fiction. My enjoyment of this book can be largely
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