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Essay · 1929

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

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Essay · 1929 · English · Modern

A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

Five hundred a year and a lock on the door.

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Judith Shakespeare — the invented sister — remains the most efficient demolition of the myth that genius is unconditioned by circumstance.

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Five hundred a year and a lock on the door.

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