Category Archives: Feminist Literature (Classics Club – March 2014)

A Review of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own

Posted on March 30, 2014 by lfpbe

I’m a little sorry that Feminism Month is almost over. I knew from the beginning that my goals were too ambitious, but I’m still sorry I didn’t reread Mating, which is one of my favorite contemporary novels, and I also … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Writers’ Workspaces and on Alice Munro’s “The Office”

Posted on March 16, 2014 by lfpbe

There’s no question that Alice Munro’s short story “The Office” – from her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades, published in 1968 – was written with Virginia Woolf in mind. The story’s opening paragraph is an arrow pointing directly … Continue reading →

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Some Brief Thoughts from Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own

Posted on March 14, 2014 by lfpbe

I had hoped to be finished with A Room of One’s Own by now, and I was going to write about Woolf’s manifesto side by side with Alice Munro’s story “The Office.” But it’s well past dinner and I still … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Richard Hugo’s “To Women”

Posted on March 7, 2014 by lfpbe

Richard Hugo’s poem “To Women” was included in the Norton Anthology that we used as a poetry text in A.P. English. We weren’t assigned to read this poem, but I found it anyway when I was flipping through the book … Continue reading →

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My Uneasy Truce with the F Word

Posted on March 6, 2014 by lfpbe

A book blog called the Classics Club is sponsoring a challenge each month in 2014. I missed January and February, but I’m planning to start participating in each challenging beginning this month. The idea is that each month has a … Continue reading →

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