A review by marleysclassics
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

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4.0

This was my first experience reading Virginia Woolf, and I was not disappointed. She writes deeply emotional and highly educational, in a personal as well as objective way. This makes A Room of One‘s Own a great mix of argumentation and literature. Some passages are rather hard to understand, which is partly because of the people she referenced and that I have never heard of, partly because her thought processes seem very complex (which obviously isn‘t a bad thing, but it does make the reading experience more difficult). I also couldn‘t agree with everything she says, and some of the statements definitely come from 1928. At the same time, most of what Virginia Woolf wrote almost a hundred years ago is still relevant today. Some of it is widely known now, so it might not seem very important. Yet I found it quite impressing that she already wrote this when it definitely wasn‘t the general consent. Furthermore, there are passages that express thought and feelings about women and fiction, that I‘ve never read being expressed so truly and pointedly. I‘m sure that this will not be my last book of hers.