![]() ![]() ![]() I am in no way a professional reviewer or have any background in these. Read A Room of One’s Own if you’re a human with a functioning brain.īefore I begin this review, I would like to mention that everything mentioned here is based on my personal thoughts on the subject. ![]() It’s a masterful rhetorical performance, but drawn-out and much drier than the first essay.Įssentially, read Three Guineas if you’re a hardcore Woolf fan. ![]() A wealthy man wrote Woolf a letter asking how women in England could help prevent war, and Woolf takes a circuitous route to say that the foreign oppression of fascism and the domestic oppression of sexism share more roots than the letter writer understands. Three Guineas is similarly strong, but not as gripping. An essay I know I’ll reread many times in my life. And along the way she plays with expectations for narrators and protagonists, treating herself as both simultaneously. Even when I didn’t agree with Woolf’s conclusions, her arguments were clear and easily traceable. I was unprepared for the style and structure of this essay to be so dazzling. I knew the basic thesis of this essay (that people need private space and personal money to be able to write fiction, and the lack of those two things has historically hindered women writers). 5 stars for A Room of One’s Own (aka “I Use the English Language Better Than All of You, Deal With It”). ![]()
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