BOOK REVIEW
Book name: A Room of One's Own
Author: Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own is a series of collected lectures of Virginia Woolf taken from the lectures she conducted at Newnham College and Girton college, two women's colleges at Cambridge University. It was first published on 24 October 1929. The essay is generally seen as a Feminist text and it discusses about the women writers of literary tradition dominated by men. The title itself shows the message that a woman needs a room for herown and have some financial support if she wants to become a writer. Otherwise no women can became a writer in tThus Mrs. Woolf has traced the position of the woman writer through the centuries, wittily finishing it off with contrasting pictures of men's lives and women's lives even today. We have summarized baldly, whereas Mrs. Woolf speaks for her sex with as much fancy as logic, as much wit as knowledge, and with the imagination of a true novelist. And she speaks for it well. Moreover, she escapes from an attitude of conventional feminism by really arguing in this book not for women but for artists. For, of course, all artists, whatever their sex, need, 500 pounds a year an a room on their own. It is only because women have had them so much less frequently than men that a special plea for them has a special forcehis male dominated society. Woolf argues that women left writing because of their relative poverty and financial crisis. By addressing some past women writers and their limitations, woolf examines whether women are capable of producing good works equal to or similar to William Shakespear. Woolf encourages the education of girls and make them aware of their position in the society they lived in. Woolf recalls her father during her lecturing that her father sir Leslie Stephen encourages only boys education and did not believe in investing for girls education. So she doesn't have the experience of formal education.
In the essay Woolf introduced a imaginary character Judith, a sister to Shakespear, who born with same qualities as Shakespear. Due to her identity as a girl, she was denied to study and trapped in home while her brother Shakespear went to school. In the first parts of Woolf's essay there was a hope that she will raise against her brothers hope, but sooner her fate was another one. Judith was not allowed to take a book and was sent to do household chores by her parents. while Shakespear enjoys the tastes of books and words along with literature, Judith was denied to have such happiness. Her father forcefully conducted her marriage and she hates it. At last Judith committed suicide without have anything by herown in the field of literature, while Shakespear estabishes himself.
Thus Mrs. Woolf has traced the position of the woman writer through the centuries, wittily finishing it off with contrasting pictures of men's lives and women's lives even today. We have summarized baldly, whereas Mrs. Woolf speaks for her sex with as much fancy as logic, as much wit as knowledge, and with the imagination of a true novelist. And she speaks for it well. Moreover, she escapes from an attitude of conventional feminism by really arguing in this book not for women but for artists. For, of course, all artists, whatever their sex, need, 500 pounds a year an a room on their own. It is only because women have had them so much less frequently than men that a special plea for them has a special force.
Book name: A Room of One's Own
Author: Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own is a series of collected lectures of Virginia Woolf taken from the lectures she conducted at Newnham College and Girton college, two women's colleges at Cambridge University. It was first published on 24 October 1929. The essay is generally seen as a Feminist text and it discusses about the women writers of literary tradition dominated by men. The title itself shows the message that a woman needs a room for herown and have some financial support if she wants to become a writer. Otherwise no women can became a writer in tThus Mrs. Woolf has traced the position of the woman writer through the centuries, wittily finishing it off with contrasting pictures of men's lives and women's lives even today. We have summarized baldly, whereas Mrs. Woolf speaks for her sex with as much fancy as logic, as much wit as knowledge, and with the imagination of a true novelist. And she speaks for it well. Moreover, she escapes from an attitude of conventional feminism by really arguing in this book not for women but for artists. For, of course, all artists, whatever their sex, need, 500 pounds a year an a room on their own. It is only because women have had them so much less frequently than men that a special plea for them has a special forcehis male dominated society. Woolf argues that women left writing because of their relative poverty and financial crisis. By addressing some past women writers and their limitations, woolf examines whether women are capable of producing good works equal to or similar to William Shakespear. Woolf encourages the education of girls and make them aware of their position in the society they lived in. Woolf recalls her father during her lecturing that her father sir Leslie Stephen encourages only boys education and did not believe in investing for girls education. So she doesn't have the experience of formal education.
In the essay Woolf introduced a imaginary character Judith, a sister to Shakespear, who born with same qualities as Shakespear. Due to her identity as a girl, she was denied to study and trapped in home while her brother Shakespear went to school. In the first parts of Woolf's essay there was a hope that she will raise against her brothers hope, but sooner her fate was another one. Judith was not allowed to take a book and was sent to do household chores by her parents. while Shakespear enjoys the tastes of books and words along with literature, Judith was denied to have such happiness. Her father forcefully conducted her marriage and she hates it. At last Judith committed suicide without have anything by herown in the field of literature, while Shakespear estabishes himself.
Thus Mrs. Woolf has traced the position of the woman writer through the centuries, wittily finishing it off with contrasting pictures of men's lives and women's lives even today. We have summarized baldly, whereas Mrs. Woolf speaks for her sex with as much fancy as logic, as much wit as knowledge, and with the imagination of a true novelist. And she speaks for it well. Moreover, she escapes from an attitude of conventional feminism by really arguing in this book not for women but for artists. For, of course, all artists, whatever their sex, need, 500 pounds a year an a room on their own. It is only because women have had them so much less frequently than men that a special plea for them has a special force.
