Last year, I took a literature course for which we had to read Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”. We discussed Virginia’s impact on the world but also the problematics of her thinking. So, when I saw this book I decided to buy it to learn more about this feminist writer.
The book discussed her whole life (it’s a biography based on documents, letters, and Woolf’s diary) and puts Woolf’s life, thoughts and experiences in the context of her upbringing, social norms, the rise of fascism, and the wars in Europe.
The book really shows how all of these contexts together fueled Virginia’s mental health struggles and problems throughout he whole life.
I bought the book in order to learn more about Virginia’s theories, impact, and problematics, and, although I did learn some of this (except for the problematics), I learned more about who Woolf was as an individual. I learned about her worries, her experiences, her feelings, her inner thoughts, etc.
Although the book was a little bit slow sometimes, I really did enjoy it and I feel like I know a lot more about a historically fundamental figure right now.