Virginia Woolf convincingly argues that a woman needs money and a room of her own if she is to compose fiction in her 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own. This text, displaying radical feminist themes, offered and continues to provide young female readers with hope in a brutally patriarchal world built by men for […]
The sensuous depiction of Clarissa Dalloway and her close friend Sally’s veiled romance in Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway quickly comes to mind when I think of bisexuality in literature. Described as Clarissa’s most “exquisite moment of her whole life,” almost “religious” when Sally “stopped; picked a flower’ and “kissed her on the lips”. Virginia Woolf’s book […]
I recall being in my second year as a literature student, strolling through Armchair Books—a whimsically lit second-hand bookstore on West Port Street, Edinburgh, only to walk past the essential classics for my course due to the expense. So, book prices are increasing; what ought to be done? According to Sarah Shafi’s piece in The […]