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Virginia Woolf's concern with feminist thematics are dominant in A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN (1929). In it she made her famous statement: "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." The book originated from two expanded and revised lectures the author presented at Cambridge University's Newnham and Girton Colleges in October 1928. Woolf examined the obstacles and prejudices that have hindered women writers. She separated women as objects of representation and women as authors of representation, and argued that a change in the forms of literature was necessary because most literature had been "made by men out of their own needs for their own uses." In the last chapter Woolf touched the possibility of an androgynous mind. Woolf refers to Coleridge who said that a great mind is androgynous and states that when this fusion takes place the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties. "Perhaps a mind that is purely masculine cannot create, any more than a mind that is purely feminine..." THREE GUINEAS (1938) urged women to make a claim for their own history and literature.
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In JACOB'S ROOM, her third novel, Virginia Woolf discovers her own unique voice as a novelist and the impressionistic style of her great later works. This definitive edition introduced by Quentin Bell, contains the original Hogarth Press text as overseen by the author; and a list of the textual variants that appeared during her lifetime. JACOB'S ROOM tells the moving story of Jacob Flanders, a young man killed in the First World War, and marks a turning point in the history of the English novel, as well as being a remarkable work in its own right.
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Lisa Williams’s book of creative nonfiction, Letters to Virginia Woolf, was recently published by Hamilton Books (June 30, 2005). She is ... the author of The Artist as Outsider in the Novels of Toni Morrison and Virginia Woolf (Greenwood Press, 2000). She is a Professor of Literature at Ramapo College of New Jersey, and lives in New York City.
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Before the Second World War and long before the second wave of feminism, Virginia Woolf argued that women’s experience, particularly in the women’s movement, could be the basis for transformative social change. Grounding Virginia Woolf’s feminist beliefs in the everyday world, Naomi Black reclaims Three Guineas as a major feminist document. Rather than a book only about war, Black considers it to be the best, clearest presentation of Woolf’s feminism.
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On this day in 1923, Virginia Woolf wrote to a friend that "I have just finished setting up the whole of Mr. Eliots [sic] poem with my own hands -- you see how my hand trembles." Though referring to the typesetting of the first English edition of The Waste Land, Woolf's trembling reflected her exhaustion from running the Hogarth Press rather than any presage of the moment's literary importance.
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From 1905 Woolf began to write for the Times Literary Supplement. In 1912 she married the political theorist Leonard (Sidney) Woolf (1880-1969), who had returned from serving as an administrator in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). Leonard Woolf was born in London as the son of a barrister. He studied at Cambridge and in 1904 he went into civil service to Ceylon. From 1923 to 1930 he was a literary editor on the Nation. In 1917 he set up a small hand press at Hogarth House, and worked as its director until his death.
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