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A Room of One's Own
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Based on lectures Virginia Woolf gave at Cambridge University, A Room of One’s Own is a foundational piece of women’s literature and a rousing examination of rigid gender roles and the creative process from a remarkable figure.
"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister-a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling...
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