Use the following questions as (optional) guides for reading and reflecting on A Room of One's Own.
Chapters 1-2:
- Is this a work of nonfiction or fiction? (16)
- Why does Woolf say that her text can be written by anyone....any "Mary"?
- What does the narrator discover in the various places she visits: the lawn at "Oxbridge," the dining facilities, the British Museum?
- What is the take-away message at the end of Chapter 2? What must women have in order to write?
Chapters 3-4:
- Who is Judith Shakespeare, and why is she so significant to Woolf's argument?
- What do you learn about the history of women writers in Chapters 3 and 4?
- What does Woolf seem to suggest about the importance of rooms? What sorts of rooms does she discuss?
- At the conclusion of Chapter 3, Woolf addresses the college women in her "audience," remarking that they have "got [them]selves to college and enjoy sitting rooms--or is it bed-sitting rooms--of [their] own" (56). As women in college, what are your reactions to Woolf's ideas about the importance of having rooms of your own? What are your own relationships to your dorm rooms, bedrooms, or campus study rooms? What effect do these spaces have on your mind?
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