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"A woman
must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." So spoke
Virginia Woolf in 1929 as she discussed the problems of the writer and of
women in general. Woolf’s talk represents perhaps the most persuasive of all
her writings on liberty, literature, and the role of women in her society.
Woolf spoke not only about writing, but about writing as a woman—speaking in
an age when women were deprived of virtually every possibility of earning
their own living. In this program, the actress Eileen Atkins re-creates her
acclaimed one-woman stage show based on Woolf’s talk, in the original
lecture hall at Girton College, Cambridge, where Woolf spoke and amidst the
background of Cambridge, with its distinguished colleges and elegant
riverbanks that were the original inspiration for Woolf’s noble and
exhilarating talk. (53 minutes)
Copyright date: ©1990
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