A Room of One’s Own (1929) | Virginia Woolf

In this video, we will talk about Virginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own (1929).
In 1928, Virginia Woolf was asked to give a lecture to a group of young women scholars at Newnham College and Girton College on the subject of Women and Fiction. Newnham College and Girton College are two women's colleges at the University of Cambridge. This essay A Room of One's Own is based on these two lectures by Woolf. This essay was published with 6 chapters in 1929.
The title of the essay A Room of One's Own comes from Woolf's argument that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she wants to write fiction. That means a woman fiction writer must have financial independence and a private space of her own where she can think and work without any interruptions. So Woolf builds her essay around this central argument and offers reasons in support of it in all the 6 chapters of the essay.
Virginia Woolf speaks as herself in the essay but sometimes she adopts the voice of a narrator referred to as the Four Marys. However, the name of the narrator is not important because she represents every woman and with this, Woolf gives us the sense that we all are joined together in a collective narrative. The Four Marys are-- Mary Beton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael. The three Marys were ladies in -waiting to Mary, Queen of Scots. The Four Marys are all fictitious characters used by Virginia Woolf to convey her points of view.
The setting of Chapter 1 of the essay is the fictional university of Oxbridge. Oxbridge is the hybrid name for the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. It was William Thackeray who used the name Oxbridge for the first time in his novel Pendennis (1950). Virginia Woolf uses this hybrid name in the essay A Room of One's Own citing Thackeray.
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