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A Room of One's Own is a seminal work of feminist literature, asserting that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." Woolf's 1929 extended essay is a powerful meditation on the historical and social conditions that have inhibited women's creative expression for centuries.Woolf explores themes of financial and educational disadvantage, the historical exclusion of women from intellectual spaces, and the psychological burden of female artists. She argues that intellectual freedom is dependent upon material conditions and that true creative genius requires an "androgynous mind"—a harmonious balance between the masculine and feminine sides of the psyche.
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist. Born in London, she was raised in a family of eight children by Julia Prinsep Jackson, a model and philanthropist, and Leslie Stephen, a writer and critic. Homeschooled alongside her sisters, including famed painter Vanessa Bell, Woolf was introduced to classic literature at an early age. Following the death of her mother in 1895, Woolf suffered her first mental breakdown. Two years later, she enrolled at King’s College London, where she studied history and classics and encountered leaders of the burgeoning women’s rights movement. Another mental breakdown accompanied her father’s death in 1904, after which she moved with her Cambridge-educated brothers to Bloomsbury, a bohemian district on London’s West End. There, she became a member of the influential Bloomsbury Group, a gathering of leading artists and intellectuals including Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, Vanessa Bell, E.M. Forster, and Leonard Woolf, whom she would marry in 1912. Together they founded The Hogarth Press, which would publish most of Woolf’s work. Recognized as a central figure of literary modernism, Woolf was a gifted practitioner of experimental fiction, employing a stream of consciousness technique and mastering the use of free indirect discourse, a form of third person narration which allows the reader to enter the minds of her characters. Woolf, who produced such masterpieces as
Mrs. Dalloway (1925),
To the Lighthouse (1927),
Orlando (1928), and
A Room of One’s Own (1929), continued to suffer from depression throughout her life. Following the German Blitz on her native London, Woolf, a lifelong pacifist, died by suicide in 1941. Her career cut tragically short, she left a legacy and a body of work unmatched by any English novelist of her day.
