sapovnela's review against another edition
4.0
I thoroughly enjoyed the narrative aspect, maybe the audiobook had an important role in this. While not everything stated here lived enough to arrive to our times I think the central thesis of this work are still very much walking with us along the streets, which is to say: a shame (and one that angers). On other hand the focus on these topics left others outside yet the delivery of the desired message is good, even with this lack (which should not be ignored by the reader).
While I liked Woolf's witty and 'voice' I also came across comments of her use of racist therms, and indeed, there were words that caught my attention but english not being my first language and my ignorance over the history of this language failed to show this to me while reading, if I have noticed I think I'd have enjoyed it less.
While I liked Woolf's witty and 'voice' I also came across comments of her use of racist therms, and indeed, there were words that caught my attention but english not being my first language and my ignorance over the history of this language failed to show this to me while reading, if I have noticed I think I'd have enjoyed it less.
meresand's review
funny
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
When she refers to women she is very clearly speaking about white women, but many of the points she makes about privilege and access to opportunities and education are very applicable to intersectional conversations still happening today nearly 100 years later.
leahkrason's review
Okay I LOVE Woolf’s writing more than literally anything. She can expand one second into a page’s worth of musings and it all hits. And it’s funny and it’s sharp and it’s lyrical and she may be my favorite writer. But I don’t need to listen to her 1. out of date and 2. out of touch (regardless of era) feminist takes about how lack of wealth is the only thing holding “genius” women back. Her racism and classicism are obvious within her fiction but I can at least read with a critical eye and still gain something. This is just unnecessary and I’d rather read her novels.
nellyisreading's review against another edition
4.0
an incredibly important text that i thoroughly enjoyed reading. woolf is intelligent and funny and so bold in her expression of opinions on gender inequality. the only thing i'd change is that it felt a little waffle-y at times
pinkrabbits's review against another edition
4.0
While I definitely do not agree with everything she wrote (e.g. there being essential differences between sexes beyond the physical), this is an interesting text and her ideas were revolutionary in her time. Definitely a recommended read for everyone.
highking_vixen's review against another edition
4.0
4.5
"It is necessary to have five hundred a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry."
Virginia Woolf's extended essay on women in fiction is truly a must read for all women out there. It's a feminist essay that didn't have an "in your face" approach to how women are belittled by men. Instead, she carefully cited examples of how and why Elizabethan women, specifically, weren't much represented in their age.
The last chapter is impactful, in a sense that Woolf has emphasized on women's freedom to think, and to choose. How these things can give the great poet a chance to live. It's almost a hundred years since this was written and it truly showed how much has changed from her to to now. It was barely a decade after the Suffrage since this was written. And now, opportunities for women are wider than ever.
"It is necessary to have five hundred a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry."
Virginia Woolf's extended essay on women in fiction is truly a must read for all women out there. It's a feminist essay that didn't have an "in your face" approach to how women are belittled by men. Instead, she carefully cited examples of how and why Elizabethan women, specifically, weren't much represented in their age.
The last chapter is impactful, in a sense that Woolf has emphasized on women's freedom to think, and to choose. How these things can give the great poet a chance to live. It's almost a hundred years since this was written and it truly showed how much has changed from her to to now. It was barely a decade after the Suffrage since this was written. And now, opportunities for women are wider than ever.