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A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
This was my first Virginia Woolf read. This wasn't at all what I was expecting it to be, and I was pleasantly surprised. If you love reading, especially classic female authors, this is a great read. I'm going to be reading more Virginia Woolf soon!
Things I liked:
-Short and easy to read
- I love the references to other works of literature
- I enjoyed seeing a reference to Joanna Baillie, a female play writer.
- Woolf brought up a good point about all of the could-be poet's and author's that were women and didn't have a voice in history. This sent me down a rabbit hole of thought about all of the voices that were lost throughout history.
- I love her section about how the world works against the author. All circumstances go against the author taking time to write a novel. "Dogs will bark; people will interrupt; money must be made; health will break down. Further, accentuating all these difficulties and making them harder to bear is the world's notorious indifference. It does not ask people to write poems and novels and histories; it does not need them."
- Love the reference to Aphra Behn! She isn't as widely talked about anymore, so it makes me happy to see her being alluded to.
- Woolf pondered the idea of a meeting between Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Elliot, and Emily Bronte.
- "So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision... is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison."
- Very inspiring to write!
- "But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh."
Things I didn't like:
Things I liked:
-Short and easy to read
- I love the references to other works of literature
- I enjoyed seeing a reference to Joanna Baillie, a female play writer.
- Woolf brought up a good point about all of the could-be poet's and author's that were women and didn't have a voice in history. This sent me down a rabbit hole of thought about all of the voices that were lost throughout history.
- I love her section about how the world works against the author. All circumstances go against the author taking time to write a novel. "Dogs will bark; people will interrupt; money must be made; health will break down. Further, accentuating all these difficulties and making them harder to bear is the world's notorious indifference. It does not ask people to write poems and novels and histories; it does not need them."
- Love the reference to Aphra Behn! She isn't as widely talked about anymore, so it makes me happy to see her being alluded to.
- Woolf pondered the idea of a meeting between Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Elliot, and Emily Bronte.
- "So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision... is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice of wealth and chastity which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison."
- Very inspiring to write!
- "But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh."
Things I didn't like: