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Name: A Room of One's Own
Rating: 4.12 (25 reviews)
Author: Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s extended essay, first published in 1929, builds on lectures delivered at Newnham and Girton Colleges, Cambridge, in 1928. Though it employs a fictional narrator, the manuscript titled “Women and Fiction” is considered non‑fiction. Widely regarded as a foundational feminist text, the work argues for both literal and figurative space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.

First publish date: 1929

Genre: Literary Fiction/Classic Literature

Authors: Virginia Woolf

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