I chanced upon Virginia Woolfs , A room of ones own, in the library and found myself finishing it in a day. To write, a woman must have a room of her own and an income, the author states in the first page, before going on to explain her idea in detail. In this book, she compares Austens writing to Brontes, shows how a writers anger can cramp their writing (with a fantastic example from Jane Eyre), states why a writers mind must be incandescent and unimpeded. And in the end she says women must go on bearing children, but in 2s or 3s, not in 10s or 12s. For in the 1920s had a woman shaken an empire, or led an army into battle or written a play as Shakespeare had? It is an illuminating book, as applicable to men as women, with the discussion of writing style. Women have moved on since that time, today there is no surfeit of women writers. But in the times of Goethe and Shakespeare, Da Vinci and Michelangelo, there is a woman-shaped lacuna that cannot be filled. And even today, isnt the room of ones own and independant income still as much a necessity to write unimpeded and incandescently?
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 08:51:15 +0000
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