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The site points out that Woolf points out that women were inhibited from success, and typically doomed to failure as a result of the restrictions placed upon them from society. They couldn't be financially independent, so they never had time to learn and experience the world, so they weren't intellectually free, etc.

The Times brings up an interesting point. Men struggled and still succeeded. Women struggled and got nowhere. Part of it must be the culture, where women often did not usually exert themselves to something ambitious, whereas men are expected to. For most of the women's rights movement, perhaps the goal wasn't to force the institution to create laws for equality, but in the bigger picture, sense that it was to show women had initiative, motivation and a purpose. 

It is interesting how Woolf thought so negatively about the social gap between men and women, and the poverty of women that kept them from freely thinking, yet had no qualms about depending on servants and other domestic help. These people are in similar situations to the ones she portrays women to hold, which makes her treatment of them suprising (she tries to avoid contact with them by writing her orders in order to avoid them all together)

Virginia Woolf talks about how a woman needs a room of one's own in order to write. But what about the room that Virginia Woolf wrote in herself? This source talks about the house that she lived in when she wrote the book and how it is getting sold by her family.

This source basically describes the book, but poses the questions that were the underlying purpose of Woolf in writing it. Shows how Woolf was a pioneer in gaining women rights and that A Room of One's Own is still relevant today, "every time individual creativity comes into conflict with the demands of a very commercial world."

Virginia Woolf ties in the two classes of women and low wage workers. She understands the full comlpexity that workers esp. women are taking advantage of and used for their labor while compensated for with lousy pay. Knowing the the bosses are cheap with their money as seen in the other novels read, they know they can get away with stiffing heir employees as there are many other people wanting for jobs to open up

This shows how men dominate women in society which juxtaposes the bosses domination of their low class employees. The author uses words like dominate, tyrannize, choose, or reject to show the power and contol that lies in the hands of the upper classes . Therefore, Woolf and other authors like Sinclair and Steinbeck speak out against the upper class and urge the lower classes to unite and fight.

This is sad. What Woolf describes in her essay, that a woman must have means and money to be able to think freely, one would think that a woman in a modern society, where no continent is neglected of technology and accessible tools for the creative space, is able to share her own thoughts and words to express her mind. No-- her concerns nearly a century ago ring true today, women are commodities, sold to slavery, prostitution, forced marriage, social censorship, many women of the world are trapped in a system constantly exploited by men. 

"The conclusion of A Room of One's Own puts forward Woolf s famous idea that the mind of the artist is androgynous, which means that there is a little bit of the masculine in every feminine brain, and vice versa."

"Victorian mores had, at least until the turn of the century, dictated the "proper" female roles of wife and mother, dutiful daughter, and overall gentle angel in the house."

This article discusses the main attributes of "A Room of One's Own" such as plot, themes, and authorial purpose. At Woolf's time, society perceives men as the superior gender and therefore society grants them more opportunities than women to succeed. Woolf's issue with this unfair treatment is the driving force in her piece of writing. Woolf also introduces the idea of the balance of feminism and masculinity in both genders. A person is not able to write great literature when their gender is pervading their writing.

This is the only part of this article that pertains to "A Room of One's Own" but it reinforces Virginia Woolf's main point throughout her novel. "It struck me as telling that de Pizan thinks of constructing a city of one's own much as Virginia Woolf thought of constructing a room of one's own-and, in part, for the same reason: so much of what men do imposes upon and impedes women that a natural thought is simply to find a place apart, where men's presence cannot bring to bear their baleful influence."(Jeff VanderMeer)

This an interesting article, especially the second to last paragraph opposing what Woolf said with "These women "applied the cultural analysis of the feminists [before them] to words, sentences, and structures of language in the novel." However, Showalter criticizes their works for their androgynistic natures.For all its concern with sexual connotations and sexuality, the writing avoids actual contact with the body, disengaging from people into "a room of one's own." (Elizabeth lee)

This article is how one women breaks down the three periods in which women have written in, and even in the most modern one she describes how they only face "some freedom" and that true freedom may never come.

"By appealing to her readers' senses, Woolf liberates deep emotional responses while at the same time exposing a host of related impressions too cumbersome to discuss in full but too persuasive to ignore"

This source shows how Woolf's descriptions are vivid and she gets her point across using strong diction to evoke an emotional response and sell the reader on her ideas.

This site discusses the influence of women authors from the eighteenth and nineteenth century, once they became an educated force that was capabale of writing in a more public sense.

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