A Room of One's Own
Ranked #9 in Essays, Ranked #10 in Feminism — see more rankings.
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in... more
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A Room of One's Own is ranked in the following categories:
- #27 in 1920S
- #65 in 20th Century
- #55 in Dublin
- #14 in Gender
- #71 in Gilmore Girls
- #59 in Graduate School
- #22 in Modernism
- #26 in Modernist
- #94 in Philosophy History
- #29 in Poetry Writing
- #70 in Short
- #65 in UK
- #37 in University
- #19 in Women
- #49 in Writers
- #50 in Writing
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