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"The conditions that are favourable to imaginative work are discussed, including the right relation of the sexes. Finally an attempt is made to outline the present state of affairs and to forecast what effect comparative freedom and independence will have upon women's artistic work in the future"

This source outlines Woolf's authorial purpose in the novel which includes to describe the limitations that one sex or social class will have when trying to do certain jobs and activities.

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.

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 is a list of other novels dealing with women and how they are oppressed and such.

A good essay written about A room of one's own

Tells about how women's writing has been put down for ages. Much like how anything the low wage worker does gets knocked down, women are often left unappreciated and impoverished.

essay written about the theme of oppression

Even though women were oppressed, they still preformed difficult tasks such as serving in the army. The workers also did all the hard jobs that no one else wanted to do, even though they were treated poorly.

talks to how women are still oppressed in the workplace today.

talks about how women today are still payed less, discriminated against still oppressed in modern society.

Discusses appearance vs reality and  talks about the hypocrisy of the morality of the time period: rich people can have the poorest morals of everyone, yet it is more acceptable than poor people with good morals