A Room of One's Own [1929] can be read as one or as six different essays, narrated from an intimate first-person perspective. Actual history blends with narrative and memoir. But perhaps most revolutionary was its address: the book is written by a woman for women. Male readers are compelled to read through women's eyes in a total inversion of the traditional male gaze.
VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882â1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacobâs Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of Oneâs Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the womenâs movement in many countries.
VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882â1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacobâs Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of Oneâs Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the womenâs movement in many countries.