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A Room of One's Own

ELLEN BAYUK ROSENMAN (ESSAY DATE 1995)

SOURCE: Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. "Difficulties and Contradictions: The Blind Spots of A Room of One's Own." In "A Room of One's Own": Women Writers and the Politics of Creativity, pp. 103-16. New York: Twayne, 1995.

In the following essay, Rosenman explicates inconsistencies in Woolf's thought at key points in A Room of One's Own, suggesting that some of the central issues raised by the essay remain disputed.

Thus far I have been taking A Room of One's Own at its word, explicating its intentions and presenting it as a coherent, persuasive whole. But the essay does present the reader with certain difficulties. At key points Woolf's thought is in conflict with itself, revealing ambivalence about some of the essay's central issues. It is no insult to...

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Primary Sources
   1. Virginia Woolf (Review Date 25 January 1905)
   2. Virginia Woolf (Letter Date 16 October 1920)
4. General Commentary
   1. Herbert Marder (Essay Date 1968)
   2. Barbara Currier Bell And Carol Ohmann (Essay Date 1974)
   3. Toril Moi (Essay Date 1985)
   4. Harold Bloom (Essay Date Fall 1994)
5. Title Commentary
   1. A Room of One's Own
6. Further Reading
7. Copyright

1. Virginia Woolf
2. Feminism