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Lunch With Virginia Woolf

On finally reading A Room of One’s Own

First published in The Atlantic on July 4, 2025

by Xochitl Gonzalez, The Atlantic
July 31, 2025 | reading time: 7 Min.

For many years, I did not read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. I suppose the thesis seemed so familiar, so foundational to feminist thinking, that I never felt the need to actually open the book. Of course a woman needs personal space and financial security in order to create art!

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