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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

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Author Biography

Name: Virginia Stephen Woolf
Birth Date: January 25, 1882
Death Date: March 28, 1941
Place of Birth: London, England
Place of Death: Lewes, Sussex, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Female
Occupations: novelist, critic, essayist

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Biography of Virginia Stephen Woolf
1089 words, approx. 3.6 pages
The English novelist, critic, and essayist Virginia Stephen Woolf (1882-1941) ranks as one of England's most distinguished writers of the period between World War I and World War II. Her novels can perhaps best be described as impressionistic. Dissatisfi...
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Biography of Virginia Stephen Woolf
10617 words, approx. 35.4 pages
The writings of Virginia Woolf have always been admired by discriminating readers, but her work has suffered, as has that of many other major authors, periods of neglect by the literary establishment. She was, as she herself put it, always a hare a long...
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Biography of (Adeline) Virginia Woolf
9348 words, approx. 31.2 pages
The writings of Virginia Woolf have always been admired by discriminating readers, but her work has suffered, as has that of many other major authors, periods of neglect by the literary establishment. She was, as she herself put it, always a hare a long...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf - 1929 Summary
9,755 words, approx. 33 pages
A Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf - 1929 Introduction In A Room of One's Own (1929), Woolf asserts that some of the most interesting and intellectual characters in literature have been women. However, off the printed page, women have...
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A Room of One's Own Summary
4,167 words, approx. 14 pages
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882, Virginia Woolf is one of the most haunting literary figures of the twentieth century. She was a member of the famed, and sometimes resented, set of artists and intellectuals...
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A Room of One's Own Information
404 words, approx. 1 pages
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published during 1929, it was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in 1928. The essay examines...


News and Journals
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The Independent - London
Rooms of their own
02/01/2008: 1,670 words, approx. 6 pages
Helen Dunmore is a prolific and prize-winning writer of poetry, fiction and children's books. But, she tells KATY GUEST, she and her characters need their own space Walking through her publisher's just-refurbished offices on the way to our interview, Helen Dunmore seems concerned....
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Interior Design
A Room of Their Own.
03/01/1999: 559 words, approx. 2 pages
Guenther Petrarca LLP and Davis Brody Bond Architects designed the waiting room in the diabetics facilities at the Columbia Presbyterian Medial Center in New York. Research and patients' clinical treatments are in one medical center which is innovative in health care facility design and...
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The New York Observer
Who Killed Feminism? Let\'d5s Blame Mommy
7/23/2006: 1,386 words, approx. 5 pages
Many years ago, in the course of an otherwise high-minded conversation, a very wise, very distinguished publisher imparted what she billed as an unassailable truth: “Marriages,” she announced, “are made and kept in bed.” To which I would add an equally crucial corollary: Never underestimate...
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The New York Observer
Who Killed Feminism? Let's Blame Mommy
7/23/2006: 1,387 words, approx. 5 pages
Many years ago, in the course of an otherwise high-minded conversation, a very wise, very distinguished publisher imparted what she billed as an unassailable truth: “Marriages,” she announced, “are made and kept in bed.” To which I would add an equally crucial corollary: Never...


Criticism and Essays
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 92%
Virgina Woolf and Feminism
2,368 words, approx. 8 pages
Virginia Woolf's "A Room of 0ne's Own" and "A Society" contains many aspects of modern feminism. The books examine women's inferior role to men in classic literature and the follies of men in their relationship and characterization of women.
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Essay Grade: 93%
A Room of One's Own
816 words, approx. 3 pages
Provides a monologue describing the theme of Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own."
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Essay Grade: 86%
A Room of One's Own: Women in the Age of Shakespeare
576 words, approx. 2 pages
Explores Virginia Wolf's "A Room of One's Own." Describes how during Shakespeare's time, women who were gifted and imaginative were not given the chance to develop their skills to become better in their craft. Considers how in the novel, Virginia Woolf demonstrates this with Judith Shakespeare, Shakespeare's talented sister.


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