"A Room of One's Own"

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The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the essay "A Room of One's Own" by Virginia Woolf. It describes how Woolf's essay is more than a treatise on women writers, as it speaks to the core need in everyone to have some sort of space they can call his/herr own. The paper also discusses the themes and issues discussed by Woolf.

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"She believed that if a woman only had five hundred pounds, her own space, and the time to write, that in one hundred years women would be writing the finest of fiction. In that anyway, her essay seems to be true. While poverty still affects more women than men, more women are writing, and being taken seriously. However, the dwellings of today have placed even more demands on women, leaving them far less time to be creative and fulfilled. Most women today work, even if they have families, because they must help to support them. Five hundred pounds would no longer support their needs, and they still would not have the time to write, even if they had their own space. Thus, the consumerism of today still keeps women on a different scale than men, and seems to point out the perpetuity of Woolf's essay."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Woolf, Virginia. "A Room of One's Own." University of Adelaide. 2005. 29 Nov. 2006. <http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91r/>

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