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A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN

      The Feminist Classic

      VIRGINIA WOOLF

      With an Introduction by

      JESSICA GILDERSLEEVE

      This Capstone edition first published 2021

      Introduction copyright © Jessica Gildersleeve

      The first edition of A Room of One's Own was published by Hogarth Press in 1929.

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AN INTRODUCTION

       BY JESSICA GILDERSLEEVE

      ‘But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction – what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain.’

      With this rhetorical flourish Virginia Woolf begins A Room of One's Own (1929). The first word of the essay, ‘But,’ anticipates immediate argument from her imagined reader, the student audience watching her deliver it, and the university administrator who has commissioned the work. ‘A room of one's own?’ these audiences think. ‘Why? How is it relevant?’ Woolf's essay proceeds to explain: the ‘room’ is not a minor detail, but foundational for women's financial and social independence, and essential for the female writer.

I say ‘essay,’