Reviews - A Room of One's Own

It's impressive how ahead of her time VW is, and so interesting to see what perspective she had around 100 years ago on how equality and feminism would develop over time. I‘m inspired.

emily0510's review against another edition

4.25

inspiring reflective slow-paced

yasminduncalf's review against another edition

4.0

informative inspiring medium-paced

liandatel's review against another edition

4.25

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

Such a famous book, I can see why. Especially as a writer myself, I hear her call for more female writers. It feels like she’s directly speaking to me and putting expectations on women writers everywhere. No pressure or anything!
At multiple points in the book and stopped to imagine the philosophical questions she poses on what art, history and writing would’ve been like if women had had equal rights as men throughout history.
I did have a hard time with the dense text and mix of fiction and essay structure. Lots of timely references were unknown to me, so I found it difficult to separate between real references and fictional characters. Nothing an online search couldn’t help!

larkfarlee's review against another edition

5.0

This book should be required reading.

emdashbea's review against another edition

4.5

The luck of being born a woman and the terror of it. Woolf speaks to a generation of women chained to a system designed against their interests but her arguments regarding financial freedom and expressive autonomy are all too relevant today.

I am reminded always of the generations of women before me who would have killed to live the way I do. I owe them everything.

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