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A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf

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First published September 1929 Second impression October 1929 Third impression November 1929 Fourth impression December 1929 Fifth impression March 1930 New Edition 1931 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, EDINBURGH [Footnote 1] This essay is based upon two papers read to the Arts Society at Newnham and the Odtaa at Girton in October 1928. The papers were too long to be read in full, and have since been altered and expanded. 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? I will try to explain. When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant. They might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney; a few more about Jane Austen; a tribute to the Brontë and a sketch of Haworth Parsonage under snow; some witticisms if possible about Miss Mitford; a respectful allusion to George Eliot; a reference to Mrs. Gaskell and one would ha

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