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#VirginiaBloomsberries

November's #buddyread discussion thread.

✒️ Do you enjoy Virginia Woolf's writing style in her essays?

✒️ Did you agree or disagree with her?

✒️ Did you have a favourite quote from either essay?

✒️ What are her main points in her discussions?

My constant companion for #HyggeHour readathon. Although I've never had his furry beans in my face before. 🐾
I had a very relaxing hour, listening to the tagged and sipping a delicious winter spiced tea.

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It was interesting to read. And sad. Because problems women have is almost the same as hundred years ago.

#VirginiaBloomsberries
My apologies. I forgot to post November's read.
Our November read is VW's 1929 extended essay on the writing, creativity, and the need for women to have financial freedom and self-determination.
Three guineas is her essay on gender differences and inequalities.
All are welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.
Via @Alldebooks

#VirginiaBloomsberries

My apologies. I forgot to post November's read.

Our November read is VW's 1929 extended essay on the writing, creativity, and the need for women to have financial freedom and self-determination.
Three guineas is her essay on gender differences and inequalities.

All are welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.

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Whaat?! Shut up and take my money!

Prompt: Author

I can‘t say she‘s my favorite author but she definitely is whom I find to be most intriguing.

#CharacterCharm

It‘s a rainy day but a gift card funded book spree picked me right up. The lovely bookstore is a bit niche. Books I didn‘t know I needed are often the best kind.

This was my first Virginia Woolf book and I liked it. Though this was published in 1929, I feel that much of Woolf's arguments are true today. She described women in fiction, such as writers and women mentioned in literature. Woolf pretty much uses various examples as to why women need money and a room of their own in order to write.

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#authoramonth @Soubhiville

I tried so hard to read this. I‘d make it about 5 pages before sleep would take me. I know she‘s working towards a specific point but it‘s hard to see in the overly descriptive retelling of her day.

#authoramonth @Soubhiville

Meh. #authoramonth @Soubhiville

Reading some Virginia Woolf as I wait for my connecting flight.

#authoramonth @Soubhiville

This was at times a little tedious, but there are some interesting thoughts in here. #authoramonth #14books14weeks

I‘m reading this for #authoramonth but tried to read another book of hers a while ago. #sundayfunday

Acquired today for #authoramonth next month

@Soubhiville

We had the absolute pleasure while visiting Wisconsin of stopping into two excellent bookstores. One was named for the tagged book and almost all of their inventory was #LGBTQIA books, and the other was another queer-owned shop my friends frequent. I even managed to pick up a cozy fantasy by a Wisconsin local author. #Bookstore

#TLT #ThreeListThursday Thanks for the tag @dabbe
1.A Room Of Ones Own/ To The Lighthouse are both faves love Woolf
2.Slaughterhouse Five
3.The Sun Also Rises
4.White Noise

I‘m still astonished, here Virginia Woolf talks about the patriarchy in 1929, she talks about men owning women, violence against women and girls and what the situation will be in a hundred years time. This book is hauntingly relevant today.

#SchoolSpirit #Professor @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#CoverLove #LightBlue a slim volume that has a powerful message. Part of the permanent collection!

#CoverLove #Chair @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

10-11 Mar 24 (audiobook)
A masterpiece. Woolf lectures to female undergraduates about female authors and surmises the very practical reasons there was no female Shakespeare. A surprisingly funny and entertaining look at women‘s place in literature and, by extension, society (via a very white English lens.)
Read by the amazing Tilda Swinton. I immediately ordered a hard copy of this (and some of Woolf‘s other texts) to re-read.
Highly recommend.

#12Booksof2023 My pick for May is this slim little nonfiction classic. I thought I knew what to expect with this one, so I‘d put off actually picking it up for far too many years, but it was so much more, and surprised me in the best way. Lines from it are still running through my mind, and like most of my top reads this year it‘s one I‘ll definitely reread. @Andrew65

#HitTheSack #IdiomInsight @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Just suffused with powerful quotes I want to remember. Woolf clearly saw the systemic reasons there were so few women writers and artists throughout history, and what it would take to begin to change that.

There‘s just so much of women‘s history that I don‘t know! Clearly I‘ll have to seek out this woman‘s work.

This is what happens as soon as they let the teachers loose from school. We spend all morning in bed in our pjs reading about how oppressive it is to be made to teach small children the alphabet.

Why is there no female Shakespeare? Nearly 100 years ago Woolf pointed out that writing requires conditions historically unavailable to women. While many were kept from the literary pool due to societal norms, the fact was that education, use of libraries, unencumbered time and a room to write in were unusual for women prior to late 1800‘s, though after this time a deeply embedded sexism was still prevalent.

This is a feminist masterpiece.

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.“

Remembering Virginia Woolf on her birthday.

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”

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Superb. So much truth. It is an amazing thing to read what was written nearly 100 years ago and have it remain incredibly relevant.

#FirstLineFridays
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?

Take a walk, have a luncheon, and re-examine history with Virginia Woolf in A Room of One‘s Own.

Despite holding awfully lofty ideals on writing, Woolf here takes a grounded look at the realities of (note: white) women‘s lives, from her 1920s to Shakespeare‘s day. She advocates for women‘s financial independence and, perhaps, even basic income! I‘m enjoying her nonfiction, as she is fabulous company, with her love of literature and sparkling wit.

We just put the finishing touches to ‘the snug‘ today - the little reading room of my dreams. The best bit - a door I can close to seal off the world! 🎉

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind”

My Amazon books came in. 🙌🏻 These books were part of their buy 3 for the price of 2 promotion. I‘m in love with the covers!

May every day be women‘s day! To our resilience, determination, creativity & strength! #celebratewomen

Waking up and starting my day with a tour of the Women of Bloomsbury, while enjoying a big cup of tea and wrapped in my wool London map blanket is how I think every Saturday should start. It was enlightening and I enjoyed it so much! The group that led it can be found on Eventbrite and they are called Women of London. I highly recommend it. They are doing a tour of Sufferagette London on Monday, International Women‘s Day.

"But you may say,we asked you to speak about women and fiction-what has to do with a room of one's own?I will try to explain..."She does and therefore I won't try to condense this wonderful book into a review.Her writing,as you follow her train of thought,is wonderful.It is so important for women and men to understand the history of women as authors and as human beings.I knew while reading it: this is one of the most important books I'll ever read

Ch.3 should be mandatory reading,Woolf reflects on the statement that we will never have a woman Shakespeare;on why you can see powerful fictional women while they are not present in history;how miserable life would have been to an equally talented sister of Shakespeare;how many Austens and Bröntes must be behind accusations of witchcraft;how impossible must have been to believe in yourself when all you can read about is how worthless you are💔

"The most transient visitor of this planet,I thought,who picked up this paper could not fail to be aware, even from this scattered testimony,that England is under the rule of patriarchy"

This is an interesting exercise,not only to be aware of the monopoly of the patriarchy,but of any type of majority:think about an alien reading the newspaper and the conclusions that would draw about who dominates society to realise how partially news are written

"The arrant feminist! She days that men are snobs!" The exclamation, to me so surprising [...] was not merely the cry of the wounded vanity; it was a protest against some infringement of his power to believe in himself. Women have served all this centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of a year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe? [...]

This extended essay is based on two lectures given at Newnham college and Girton college in 1928. Woolf posits that an educated woman needs a place of her own to write and an independent income. She asks, what brilliant women writers might have been passed over throughout history because of women‘s lack of freedom, responsibility to family, and utter lack of opportunity; also in having every door shut to her in pursuit of education as to not 👇

Virginia Woolf and Ms Seton discuss how is that the women's college is so poor in comparison with the men's and remember that in order to open it they needed only to raise £30,000 which shouldn't have been much,specially since it was the only one in the UK and Ireland "but considering how few people wish women to be educated, it is a good deal"(quoting Lady Stephen).They raised so little that they could only pay for the building not the amenities.

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.“

Remembering Virginia Woolf on her birthday.