Hi Jenn,
In chapter one of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own Virginia has been asked to speak on the topic of women and fiction. She talks about her main thesis statement and reflects on it in which the statement was "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." She talks about how she and other women are not allowed to do many of the things that males are allowed to do. An example of this is that when she was walking on the grass a university security guard came over to her and told her that women are not allowed to walk on the grass and she must move to the gravel. And also another is when she recalls and essay that she once read in which the author stated in her own person experience "ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction." The narrator of the book talks about the start of a women’s college and how there was little political support and not to many followers.
As I read this chapter it really hit me to see how this actually was really happening and I couldn’t believe it. This might be an important reading in an English class because it talks about real events that made an impact on our lives today and it also gets you thinking outside of the box about the situations in which women just like us went through not too long ago.
Good luck with the reading and let me know if you need more help,
Lori
In chapter one of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own Virginia has been asked to speak on the topic of women and fiction. She talks about her main thesis statement and reflects on it in which the statement was "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." She talks about how she and other women are not allowed to do many of the things that males are allowed to do. An example of this is that when she was walking on the grass a university security guard came over to her and told her that women are not allowed to walk on the grass and she must move to the gravel. And also another is when she recalls and essay that she once read in which the author stated in her own person experience "ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction." The narrator of the book talks about the start of a women’s college and how there was little political support and not to many followers.
As I read this chapter it really hit me to see how this actually was really happening and I couldn’t believe it. This might be an important reading in an English class because it talks about real events that made an impact on our lives today and it also gets you thinking outside of the box about the situations in which women just like us went through not too long ago.
Good luck with the reading and let me know if you need more help,
Lori
1 comment:
Well done--you've got a good overview of the chapter here.
There's also a comparison of tone and poetry pre-war and post-war. The comparison between Oxbridge (the men's university) and Fernham (the women's college) and the meal the narrator eats on each campus demonstrate that women do not have the same access to education, tradition, and money that men do.
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