Tag: a room of one’s own

Being Poor While Female in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853)

Being Poor While Female in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853)

Posted by | Dec 29, 2020 |

Nearly eighty years after the publication of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Villette, Virginia Woolf laments the poverty of women in her classic book, A Room Of One’s Own. In that classic piece is the famous conclusion that “a woman needs money and room of her own if she is to write fiction”(4). But how to attain it in a culture and time in that culture where women were notoriously poor?  Woolf speaks of how she came to having money of her own, five hundred pounds a year, left to her by her aunt “Mary Beton” who “died by a fall...

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Virginia Woolf and A Room of One’s Own (First published in London, 1929)

Virginia Woolf and A Room of One’s Own (First published in London, 1929)

Posted by | Jun 20, 2018 |

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) a writer, intellectual and feminist wrote, in her seminal book, A Room of One’s Own: “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction” (4). These words were originally delivered in a talk she was asked to give in 1928 about women and fiction. In the journey of this small book, Woolf allows us into her thought process as she ponders what to say about this topic. She goes to the banks of a river across from “Oxbridge,” a fictionalized version of the renowned Oxford, a place to...

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