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miamaybereading's review against another edition
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
It took me some time to get used to her writing style but then I really enjoyed her stream of consciousness. I sometimes felt that her writing had a pretentious tone and that she blamed women… However there also were a lot of beautiful and important quotes.
hannah_go03's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
nvrrrdie's review against another edition
slow-paced
2.0
I have no doubt that Virginia Woolf is an intelligent and contemplative writer. I think this book is of historical interest about theory related to opportunity, poverty, and success and the changing position of Englishwomen in society, and that this text was a very early contribution to a field that has since grown extremely more wide and deep. However I dreaded reading this and found the style very hard to parse. Overall it did not leave much of an impression on me and I will likely find more benefit from later generations of writing.
vivian_m_anderson's review against another edition
4.5
so so good! just as relevant today as it was when woolf wrote it—was fun to read for my gender studies independent study!
rebeccabattin's review against another edition
3.0
Had some good points but overall the book is written really pretentiously and Woolf spends its last pages blaming women for not trying hard enough to apply themselves to writing. Not great.
thatgrace's review against another edition
4.0
The way Woolf writes in a stream of consciousness was, at first, disorienting. Then, quickly, comforting. Despite intangible points in the book, which were distressing, I found myself intrigued and seen even though I do not attach the crippling expectations I feel to men --how can anyone write while feeling a looming presence over them? How do we fight the expectation of the self from friends, family, society as a whole, and ourselves? Mostly, I think Woolf wants to encourage connection to the self and others without social constructions getting in the way. To start, we must know what holds us back.