A Room of One's Own | Style
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Throughout A Room of One's Own, Woolf interacts with her readers by addressing them as "you," as if she were giving a lecture. In fact, her first sentence pretends that the members of her audience will object to some of what she is going to say: ‘‘But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction—what has that got to do with a room of one's own?’’ Woolf s conversational style is a crucial component of her message. For Woolf, how a person delivers a lecture is just as important as its content or what it says. And the give-and-take...
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