Hi Leila,
I just finished reading chapter one of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and if you are ready, I will tell you what it means, what is important about it and how I felt about reading it!! I hope this helps!!! Virginia Woolf is asked to give her opinion on women and fiction. She replies that women need two things, money and a room of their own to work in, in order for fiction to be produced by women authors. Claiming how weighted this question is and that is has no true answer or conclusion Woolf takes us through a series of how she got to that point. The point being that she did not answer the question in full but touched upon the influences of women authors and their histories as well as the impact of the male role in society has had. I feel that it is important to know that she did not answer the question right out, she dabbled in to different authors lives, their pasts and the history of where she was, the university and the effects such histories have upon women and authorship in general. There is no way to effectively answer such a question, you could merely reflect upon it and as Woolf stated either accept or reject the manifestation. I hope this helps you better understand Virginia Woolf and better ready for what is to come later in this book!
Love you,
Your favorite Aunt
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Yes, and she compares the men's university, Oxbridge, to the women's college Fernham, to show the difference between men's and women's access to education, tradition, and money. Remember the meals, and the campuses, and how Oxbridge is built on a foundation of gold and silver.
Is HW 22 in the works?
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