This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 4.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 4.

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