A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf torrent

Category: Adults, Lecture
Language: English
Keywords: Ethics Women's Studies Writing

Written by Virginia Woolf
Read by Juliet Stevenson
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Canongate Books
Release date: August 3, 2011
Duration: 05:02:55

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction . . .” First published in 1929, A Room of One’s Own is Virginia Woolf’s pioneering work on women in literature. An accessible yet fiercely astute polemic, it is a crystallization of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen’s pandering to a male writing style, to imagining the dreadful fate of Shakespeare’s talented, intelligent sister, Woolf makes the topic an enjoyable journey through her imagination, filling in for the undocumented in female history, and exploring the loss to the literary landscape in her own entertaining, convincing prose.

This 1929 essay is perhaps the author’s most important work–part feminist manifesto, part literary theory and part personal reflection presaging her suicide.

It is based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist attacks on male superiority. Woolf’s blazing support on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare’s imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman’s need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.