A Room of One's Own | Essays and Criticism

  • The Various Settings in A Room of One's Own

    Dell’Amico has published numerous essays and articles on twentieth century authors and teaches literature and composition. In the following essay, the author considers various settings of the novel, Oxbridge, Fernham, the British Museum, and the streets of London.

  • A History of the Precedent: Rhetorics of Legitimation in Women's Writing

    In the following essay, Gallagher compares A Room of One's Own to earlier tracts by women on writing, asserting that ‘‘the legitimacy’’ of Woolf s ‘‘discourse rests on its being authentically hers.’’