DWBC Bristol - September Meet Up

​Welcome to the final curriculum of the year: Women Who Work, the liberation and exploitation of working women.

​In September, we're reading A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf. This extended essay is one of Woolf's most seminal works, exploring the economic, social, and creative freedoms necessary for women to write.

​Here's what you need to know:

​Pages: 112 Release year: 1929 Country: UK

​Synopsis:

​"First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures Woolf delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at the University of Cambridge, in October 1928. While this extended essay employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and as characters in fiction, the manuscript prepared for the lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and the resulting essay are considered nonfiction. The essay is regarded as a feminist text and is noted for its argument for both a literal and figurative space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy."