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evaeyre's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
An absolutely beautiful book that i could not put down! Simply put, Woolf’s writing in this piece in particular makes me proud to be a woman.
izy_blue's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
2.5
The last few pages had some very nice quotes in.
pr0pheta's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
i didn't love it but i didn't like her writing style. it's dense and in prose and can make hard to follow. but i think it's important to remember the culture around the time this was written, and how forward thinking she was surrounded by a world that had just given women a right to vote 9 years prior.
happylilkt's review against another edition
5.0
This was a timely read, even 90 years after it was written. Woolf's musings on "women and fiction" are vast, varied, and at times tentative. I am going to add this to my personal library so that I can study it further.
Recommended to: writers, feminists, history lovers, critical readers
Recommended to: writers, feminists, history lovers, critical readers
silviamichienzi1995's review against another edition
5.0
Non riuscivo a staccarmi perché ogni singolo paragrafo di questo breve saggio è di una bellezza sconcertante. Perfino nei classici è davvero raro mantenere costante una tale intensità per tutto il tempo.
shellydennison's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
hopeful
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inspiring
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medium-paced
4.0
I tried to read this as if I was hearing it as a undergraduate at Girton in the 1920s, which I think helped give it a sense of immediacy and urgency that I might otherwise not have appreciated as clearly.
I liked the weaving together of different ways of approaching the topic of women and fiction, and the clear sense of Woolf developing her thinking.
As a history graduate I found her thoughts on how women don't appear in history (outside of queens and nobility) useful in that we have at least made progress on that front and the lives of women pre 1700 are being uncovered and made into engaging books (e.g Femina by Janina Ramirez, Medieval Women by Henrietta Leyser to pull two titles from my bookshelf)
The call to women to write in all genres of nonfiction as well as fiction, alongside an understanding of how doing so would enrich fiction was something that particularly caught my attention as still feeling like a fresh insight.
I liked the weaving together of different ways of approaching the topic of women and fiction, and the clear sense of Woolf developing her thinking.
As a history graduate I found her thoughts on how women don't appear in history (outside of queens and nobility) useful in that we have at least made progress on that front and the lives of women pre 1700 are being uncovered and made into engaging books (e.g Femina by Janina Ramirez, Medieval Women by Henrietta Leyser to pull two titles from my bookshelf)
The call to women to write in all genres of nonfiction as well as fiction, alongside an understanding of how doing so would enrich fiction was something that particularly caught my attention as still feeling like a fresh insight.