A Room of One's OwnHarcourt, Brace, 1929 - 199 Seiten In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister-a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, she takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one-women must have a fixed income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create. Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom. |
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... matter unconsumed . For though we say that we know nothing about Shake- speare's state of mind , even as we say that , we are saying something about Shakespeare's state of mind . The reason per- haps why we know so little of Shakespeare ...
... matter unconsumed . For though we say that we know nothing about Shake- speare's state of mind , even as we say that , we are saying something about Shakespeare's state of mind . The reason per- haps why we know so little of Shakespeare ...
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... matters , and Middlemarch and Villette and Wuthering Heights matter , then it matters far more than I can prove in an hour's discourse that women generally , and not merely the lonely aristocrat shut up in her country house among her ...
... matters , and Middlemarch and Villette and Wuthering Heights matter , then it matters far more than I can prove in an hour's discourse that women generally , and not merely the lonely aristocrat shut up in her country house among her ...
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... matter of hard fact , the theory that poetical genius bloweth where it listeth , and equally in poor and rich , holds little truth . As a matter of hard fact , nine out of those twelve were University men : which means that somehow or ...
... matter of hard fact , the theory that poetical genius bloweth where it listeth , and equally in poor and rich , holds little truth . As a matter of hard fact , nine out of those twelve were University men : which means that somehow or ...
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