A Room of One's Own | Critical Overview
A Room of One's Own is widely acknowledged to be a major work of feminist thought, just as many of Woolf's novels are considered major works of English-language fiction. A Room of One's Own is especially admired for its unparalleled breadth of inquiry and for the power of its metaphors. Its story of ‘‘Shakespeare's sister,’’ its notion of ‘‘aroom of one's own,’’ and its idea that women ‘‘think back through [their] mothers,’’ for example, are staple phrases of post-1950s feminist dialogues. The book's reputation rests not only on the way in which it...
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