A Room of One's Own and Other Essays

The principal piece, first published in 1929, is an extended essay drawn from lectures at two Cambridge women's colleges. A narrator walks a university, is barred from the library, lunches at a men's college and dines at a poorer women's one, and asks what a woman needs in order to write fiction. She invents Judith Shakespeare, surveys earlier women authors, and argues for independent income and a private room. The companion essays continue related inquiries: how novels are made, how they should be read, and how sex and money shape a writing life.

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