A Room of One's Own

What a privilege to be the voice of Virginia Woolf, one of the greats of modernist 20th century writing, and to narrate this classic extended essay charting a history of women's literature and the reasons why there is so little of it; the social structures and injustices that have prevented women from participating in writing. Her book started as lectures given in 1928 at two Cambridge University women's colleges, Newnham and Girton. Using several metaphors, Woolf explores the social injustices and structures that have prevented women from engaging in free expression and contributing to the world's literature. Published 1929, and going on to become a seminal and influential feminist work, the language here is scholarly, a little dense; so making the text digestible and easy on the ear was the task at hand for me as narrator, to get Woolf's superb points across. Audiobook form works particularly well to make Woolf's elevated, intellectually witty prose more accessible. Listen here on Audible.