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Book · 1929 · Nonfiction

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf
Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Random House) · 112 pages
★ 8.0 editorial score

Give a woman five hundred a year and a room with a lock and she will write, Woolf argues, then invents a gifted sister for Shakespeare and follows her to a terrible end.

Genre
Cultural criticismFeminist criticismFeminismCriticism
Medium
Essays
Subject
WomenLiterature
Time
1929

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