Nov 14, 2023
We’re kicking off our month of Virigina Woolf with an
episode exploring Woolf’s dense and sprawling extended essay, “A
Room of Own’s Own.” At just over one hundred pages, Woolf gives
herself ample space on the page to explore and consider the issues
that keep women from the forefront of the literature and what might
be done to give them the creative freedom to write
unencumbered.
In today’s episode, we’re following along closely with the text
while helping our fellow readers pull out key takeaways from
Woolf’s work. We share our own experiences reading and teaching
this seminal piece of feminist critique, Woolf's use of figurative
and practical language to provide compelling arguements, and
limitations of the essay, including who was included in Woolf’s
critique and who was left out.
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