English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1521 short lesson, about 20 seconds
A Room of One's Own
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The idea
A Room of One's Own, of nineteen twenty-nine, an essay drawn from lectures at Cambridge's women's colleges, argues that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf imagines Shakespeare's sister, equally gifted but denied opportunity.
In practice
Money, a room, Shakespeare's sister.
Where people slip
The argument is material, not mystical.
Your place on the trail
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