Reading and Writing

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own


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I chat with Calli and Brenna about Woolf's A Room of One's Own. We ask why it's hard to create literary masterpieces and what particular obstacles women have faced through the centuries. We consider Woolf's claim that "it would have been impossible...for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare." Then we react to her admonition to give voice to Shakespeare's sister, and ask what excuses we (men included) really have not to try, what progress has been made in the past hundred years, what are the dangers of hate and resentment, why it might be a mistake for anyone who writes to think of their gender, and much more. 

 

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Reading and WritingBy Michael Lavers

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