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A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf's revolutionary 1929 manifesto asks: What if women had Shakespeare's genius but lacked his freedom? This feminist cornerstone - inspiring generations from college classrooms to protest signs - argues that creative brilliance requires financial independence and "a room of one's own."

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When Women Were Locked Out of Libraries

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Picture a woman in 1928, wandering the grounds of Cambridge University. She steps onto the grass-and a beadle in formal dress rushes over, waving her off. The lawn is for Fellows only. She tries to enter the library-the door closes. Women must be accompanied by a Fellow or have a letter of introduction. These weren't metaphors. They were Virginia Woolf's actual experiences, transformed into one of the most influential feminist texts ever written. When she delivered these observations as lectures to female students, she spoke to young women who couldn't take degrees at Cambridge until 1948, twenty years after her talk. The phrase "a room of one's own" has since become shorthand for independence itself-cited by everyone from Gloria Steinem to J.K. Rowling. What began as a modest exploration of why so few women had written fiction became a revolutionary manifesto about freedom, creativity, and power.

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The Price of Genius: Why Money Matters More Than Talent

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The Tragedy of Shakespeare's Sister

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When Anger Distorts Art

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The Androgynous Mind: Beyond Gender Wars

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Finding the Woman's Sentence

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Your Room Awaits

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