Teacher Guide

A Room of One's Own Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Orlando: A Biography, a novel by Woolf about a poet who changes from a man into a woman, was published in 1928, the same year she delivered the two lectures at Newnham and Girton on which she based A Room of One's Own.

In 1929, the same year A Room of One's Own was published as an essay, The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner) and Passing (Nella Larsen) were also published.

A Room of One's Own is considered a central feminist text; other important feminist works include A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft), Ain't I A Woman and Feminism is for Everybody (bell hooks), or The Feminine Mystique (Betty Friedan). Also worth exploring are the writings of feminist...

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