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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf delivered two lectures at Cambridge University on the topic of women and literature. It was the time when just a decade ago, the right to vote was given to the women. When she delivered the lecture, it was a burning desire of young, well-educated and eager women to get an equal place for them. Woolf was also impressed by the standard of living which women had, as compared with their men counterparts of posh men colleges. She believes that intellectual capacity is determined by the material conditions which one possesses. She argues that if you want to write well, you need certain prerequisites like an appropriate room, certain amount of money to buy clothes and food. Woolf revised her two lectures which she delivered previously and published the whole experience as ‘A Room of One’s Own’ in 1929. This book came to be an inspiration for women during second feminist movement which carried out during 1960s and 1970s. In Search of a Room of One’s Own It was disappointing that at the end of the day, we could not find the solid facts on the issue ‘Why women are poorer than men’. This indicates that the time has come to end up the struggle and give up seeking for the truth. It’s time to ask the historian who specializes in recording the facts, not the opinions, to elaborate under what conditions women lived even in the time of Elizabeth. It’s worth mentioning that why no women raised her voice when every other man was busy in doing it. I was looking for some sort of fiction or imaginative work. I went through different shelves and reached to the shelves of history. Words and sentences regarding women’s condition in England, as per her history, were really to be worried upon. Women of rich families have the luxury to choose the life partner as per their choice. But the women who deny fulfilling their parent’s wish regarding marriage are subjected to adverse living conditions. I feel like it is also not that mu

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