men are not women…

Book review:

A Room of One’s Own

by Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

San Diego, CA: A Harvest/HBJ Book, 1929, published 1957

118 pages

Virginia Woolf was no stranger to controversy, in her writing and in her life. In A Room of One’s Own, she wrote: “…when a subject is highly controversial…one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.” (p. 4)

Woolf refers to “men who have no apparent qualification save that they are not women” (p. 27) and she quotes fellow writer Samuel Butler (1835-1902): “Wise men never say what they think of women.” (p. 29)

A so-called Modernist, she wrote: “Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.” (p. 35)

Even this short work is longer than it needs to be. Woolf’s prose just gushes with energy and insight and realistic gloom. One wonders whether a man has ever written such words.

Woolf claims that a writer needs “a room of one’s own.”

I think a writer can do very well indeed by making a space in which to write,

a space in the mind or somewhere in the house.

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