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[[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpg|thumb|[[Virginia Woolf]], the author of ''A Room of One's Own''.]] |
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'''''A Room of One's Own''''' is an extended [[essay]] by [[Virginia Woolf]]. First published during [[1929]], it was based on a series of lectures she delivered at [[Newnham College, Cambridge|Newnham College]] and [[Girton College]], two women's colleges at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]] in 1928. |
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The essay examines whether women were capable of producing work of the quality of [[William Shakespeare]], amongst other topics. In one section, Woolf invented a fictional character Judith "Shakespeare's Sister", to illustrate that a woman with Shakespeare's gifts would have been denied the same opportunities to develop them because of the doors that were closed to women. Woolf also examines the careers of several female authors, including [[Aphra Behn]], [[Jane Austen]], the [[Brontë]] sisters and [[George Eliot]]. The author subtly refers to several of the most prominent intellectuals of the time, and her hybrid name for the [[University of Oxford]] and the [[University of Cambridge]]—[[Oxbridge]]—has become a well-known term in English satire, although she was not the first to use it. |
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The title comes from Woolf's conception that, 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' (chapter 1). It also refers to any author's need for [[poetic license]] and the personal liberty to create art. |
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==Plays, Film and Television adaptations== |
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It was adapted as a play by [[Patrick Garland]] who also directed [[Eileen Atkins]] in its stage performance. Their television adaptation was broadcast on [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] ''[[Masterpiece Theatre]]'' in 1991. |
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==External links== |
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* [http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/ Online edition] |
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*{{imdb title|id=0320377}} |
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[[Category:1929 books]] |
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[[Category:Feminism books]] |
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[[Category:Books by Virginia Woolf]] |
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Revision as of 17:57, 25 February 2008
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