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Virginia just gets it!!! This book may be 80 years old but it feels written for the present moment. She validates idealism and the effect of social conditioning on women, not shying away from any of the complexities at hand. Some lines are so beautiful I had to copy them out, others so incisive that I couldn’t look away. Absolutely recommend to all who want a peek into the mind of a genius or a look into another way of considering the structures we inherit and the harm they’ve caused along the way.
A little more convoluted and difficult to follow than A Room of One's Own. Overall it's still a a wonderful follow-up from an incredibly gifted and introspective writer
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I'm sure this book is good. It comprises of 3 essays from Wolfe pondering who would benefit most if she were to donate money to them (The Guinea). It's one long anti-war feminist manifesto, and it is hard to disagree or argue with any particular sentence in it.
It is 3 chapters long, and boy are those chapters long - there is argument after argument, each with several sub arguments, plenty of tangents to add weight to arguments and consider other angles. I found it hard to absorb. I was reading a Nancy Mitford novel at the same time and somebody in that novel referred to Woolf as the only intelligent woman around, and this writing gives you a good insight to her thinking and nobody could argue she wasn't intelligent. The book was first published in 1938, and it is astonishing to see how much of it is relatable today in 2023. It is a work of non-fiction and has a large number of references, so thoroughly researched and arguments well supported.
For me to summarise and take away the key points, I'd have needed a conclusion, some paragraph headings and perhaps an executive summary.
It is 3 chapters long, and boy are those chapters long - there is argument after argument, each with several sub arguments, plenty of tangents to add weight to arguments and consider other angles. I found it hard to absorb. I was reading a Nancy Mitford novel at the same time and somebody in that novel referred to Woolf as the only intelligent woman around, and this writing gives you a good insight to her thinking and nobody could argue she wasn't intelligent. The book was first published in 1938, and it is astonishing to see how much of it is relatable today in 2023. It is a work of non-fiction and has a large number of references, so thoroughly researched and arguments well supported.
For me to summarise and take away the key points, I'd have needed a conclusion, some paragraph headings and perhaps an executive summary.
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An interesting and powerful book by any means, but it was just a really hard read for me. The paragraphs and even the sentences themselves are so long that I kept getting lost. I think I'll have to do a re-read once I have more time and patience on my hands, and if you don't have those things in spades, I'm not sure I'd recommend the book to you.
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sine of the best writers of all time in an essay not read enough in my opinion. This, along side with 'A room of one's own' are some on the greatest feminist literature. How she is able to speak of her time with a voice still so deeply contemporary and innovative today is amazing.