A Room of One’s Own
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A Room of One's Own
Woolf metaphor for the material and psychological conditions women need to write
Five hundred pounds a year and a room with a lock represent independence and privacy
Five Hundred Pounds
The annual income Woolf argues women need for independence
The money represents financial independence that frees women from dependence on men
Judith Shakespeare
Woolf fictional sister of William Shakespeare imagined to show what happened to gifted women
Judith has Williams genius but lacks opportunity and dies unknown illustrating wasted female talent
Oxbridge
Woolf fictional name combining Oxford and Cambridge representing elite male education
Women were excluded from Oxbridge representing their exclusion from knowledge and opportunity
Fernham
Woolf fictional name for a women's college showing their inferior resources
Fernham poverty compared to Oxbridge wealth illustrates institutional inequality
Angel in the House
The Victorian ideal of the selfless domestic woman that Woolf argues must be killed
The Angel in the House represents the internalized critic that prevents women from writing honestly
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