Premium Content Making Room for Women: Virginia Woolf's Narrative Technique in A Room of One's Own
By K. P. McDonell - July 22, 2002
"Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading." Can these words really belong to Virginia Woolf, an "uneducated Englishwoman" who knew half a dozen languages, who authored a shelf's length of novels and essays, who possessed one of the most rarified literary minds of the twentieth century? Tucked into the back pages of A Room of One's Own…
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