A Room of One's Own

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But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction — what, has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain. Thoughts

a lot of irony, you can feel pain and wit

writing like a woman - how insufficient having two sexes is, imagine how poor the world would be if they merged into one - first touches of trans theory

Shakespeare's sister - just a talented but though loving, her father never supported her

What did Virginia Woolf advise

Have a room of one's own and five hundred a year

Give that girl another hundred years and she will write a better book one of these days

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