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portada A Room of One's own (Alma Classics): Virginia Woolf
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
19 x 12 cm
ISBN13
9781847497888
Edition No.
1

A Room of One's own (Alma Classics): Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (Author) · Alma Books Ltd · Paperback

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Synopsis "A Room of One's own (Alma Classics): Virginia Woolf"

Based on lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the foundations of a history of women’s literature, the text is also a triumph of imagination, with a celebrated passage envisaging the fate of a fictional sister of Shakespeare’s.

A seminal, widely studied feminist polemic that touches on both literature and politics, A Room of One’s Own is essential reading for those wishing to understand the progress that has been made in women’s rights and the struggles that still lie ahead.
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf was born in London on January 25, 1882, and died on March 28, 1941, drowned in the River Ouse. After her father's death, the well-known man of letters Sir Leslie Stephen, Virginia and her sister Vanessa left the elegant Kensington neighborhood and moved to the bohemian Bloomsbury, which named the brilliant literary group formed around the Stephen sisters. Among its members were T. S. Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Vita Sackville-West, and the writer Leonard Woolf, whom Virginia married and with whom she ran the prestigious Hogarth Press. From her early works, Virginia Woolf highlighted her intention to take novels beyond mere narration. In Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), the author expressed the inner feelings of the characters with her own techniques, achieving great psychological effects through images, metaphors, and symbols. Her technique was consolidated with Orlando (1931) and The Waves (1931), which secured her an indisputable place within the finest world literature. Additionally, Woolf wrote essays as famous as A Room of One's Own (1929), which still inspires new generations of women today, literary criticism articles like those compiled in The Common Reader (1925, 1932) and in Genius and Ink (2021), or the biography of the English poet Elizabeth Barrett's dog, Flush (1933). All these works are published by Lumen.
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Christobal Andrés Contreras Bustamante Monday, February 26, 2024
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 Anonymous User Monday, December 01, 2025
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Me interesa él enfoque de Woolf sobre él status de la mujer en su epica, lo poco expuestas a la cultura, la forma de ser oprimidas por los hombres , y todas las razones qué sé dan para qué las mujeres no puedan ejércer su don de escribir. Hay muchisimas referencias en él libro y no tengo informacion sobre la mayoria de autores a los que ella sé refiere continuamente en su escrito. Habria qué estudiar mas él libro con sus referencias para entender o leerlo de una manera completa. Si pensé qué es algo repetitivo, su mensaje sobre las mujeres y la ficcion sé repite y eso causo un desinteres al final.

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