A Room of One's Own: A Reader's Companion

Twayne's Masterwork Studies: Women Writers and the Politics of Creativity

Twayne Publishers, 1995.

Ellen Bayuk Rosenman

In a broad sense, Rosenman points out, A Room of One's Own analyzes the constraints on women's achievement--the hostile environment in which they write--and the responses, both creative and self-defeating, that this environment provokes. As she follows the essay's analysis of patriarchy and feminism, she also pays special attention to the essay as a novel, showing how the twists and turns of Woolf's narrative resemble experimental literary techniques.