Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own

After almost three hours of walk to downtown of New Port, Vermont on July 7th, Mary Louise and I went to a bookstore and I bought this book.

Woolf insists that women should have a consistent income and their privacy to be a good writer. She mentions that her life has changed ever since she became an heir and historically few genius came from a low class. However, she doesn't mention how one who is not lucky enough to be an heir can be a great writer. Instead, I interpert her point as women's econimical independence. Women writers should write a lot, whatever it is, to have an income out of it.

According to Woolf, Jane Austin is a great genuis because she created her own style, untarnished from male writers' influence, without impediments, much as seen in Shakespear's, while Charlotte Bronte, another genius writer, who wrote Jane Ayre, shows impediments--distortion and anger as I understand--from the reality the author faced, so she cannot be comparable with Austin. Woolf emphsizes that a writer should depict their characters calmly, but not their own personality. Women should write what and how they feel freely and at the same time they should forget their sex when they write.

There are somewhat contradictiry statements in the book, but her essay is very persuasive and converys a clear idea about the fundamentals of being a writer as a woman. She suggests an androgenetic quality in the depth.

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