书评

Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own is a searing, timeless meditation on women’s creativity, autonomy, and the unshakable link between material security and intellectual freedom. First delivered as a series of lectures, the essay weaves personal anecdote, literary criticism, and sharp social commentary into a cohesive argument: for a woman to write fiction, she must have “money and a room of her own”—metaphors for the financial independence and personal space denied to most women of Woolf’s era. Woolf’s prose is both lyrical and incisive, using examples like the hypothetical “Judith Shakespeare” to illustrate how systemic sexism stifles female genius. What makes the work enduring is its universality: though rooted in early 20th-century Britain, its core message resonates with anyone who has been denied the space to create or thrive. A slim volume with enormous weight, A Room of One’s Own is not just a feminist classic but a vital exploration of what it means to claim one’s voice in a world that often seeks to silence it.