VLVL2 (9): "a room of her own"

[Tim Strzechowski]

140.6:  "[...] installed in a room of her own [...]"

Echoes of Virginia Woolf's essay, which addresses women and the fictions they create:
"A Room of One's Own is an extended essay, based on Woolf's lectures at a women's college at Cambridge University in 1928. In it, Woolf addresses her thoughts on "the question of women and fiction," interpreted by Woolf as many questions. In A Room of One's Own, Woolf ponders the significant question of whether or not a woman could produce art of the high quality of Shakespeare. In doing so, she examines women's historical experience as well as the distinctive struggle of the woman artist." [...]
http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/ownroom.html

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/w91r/

In what ways do the aesthetic notions conveyed by Woolf parallel the creative acts of the women in this chapter and throughout the novel (e.g. filmmaking, role playing, child-bearing, etc.)?






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