Solitude and community: Virginia woolf, spatial privacy and a Room of One's Own

Literature and History

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 68-80

  Gan, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 68549115401     PISSN: 03061973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7227/lh.18.1.5     Document Type: Review

References (27)

1. Patricia Meyer Spacks, 'Privacy of the Novel', Novel: A Forum on Fiction, 31:3(1998), p. 309
2. This paper contains material from Chapter One of Wendy Gan, Women, Privacy and Modernity in Early Twentieth Century Writing, 2009, Palgrave Macmillan, reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan
3. Sally Alexander, 'Room of One's Own: 1920s Feminist Utopias', Women: A Cultural Review, 11:3 (2000), p. 286
4. Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space: 1880-1918 (Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, 1983), p. 152
5. Florence Nightingale, 'Cassandra', in Ray Strachey, The Cause: A Short History of the Women's Movement in Great Britain (London, 1988), p. 404
6. In fact, Woolf makes mention of Nightingale's 'Cassandra' in A Room of One's Own. See Chapter 4 of Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (London, 1993)
7. Julie Robin Solomon, 'Staking Ground: The Politics of Space in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas', Women's Studies, 16 (1989), p. 333
8. Christiane Bimberg, 'The Poetics of Conversation in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own: Constructed Abritrariness and Thoughtful Impressionism', Connotations, 11 (2001/02), p. 6
9. Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing, ed. Jeanne Schulkind (San Diego, New York & London, 1985), p. 182
10. Nightingale, 'Cassandra', p. 409
11. Woolf, Moments of Being, p. 185
12. In using 'renovation' I follow Victoria Rosner for, as she suggests, rightly I feel, Bloomsbury renovated Victorian homes to create modernist ones (See 'Housing Modernism: Architecture, Gender, and the Culture of Space in Modern British Literature', Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1999, p. 99). Instead of razing the old to the ground, they negotiated with the old to make new spaces. It is an idea that is also in keeping with the lack of extensive modernist architecture in Britain. Unlike America and the European continent, modernist architecture failed to take complete hold in Britain. The result for Britain was that modernity meant modernist interiors within old buildings
13. Christopher Reed, Bloomsbury Rooms (New Haven and London, 2004), p. 6
14. Jane Harrison, 'Scientiae Sacra Fames', Alpha and Omega (London, 1915), p. 128
15. See Victoria Rosner, Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (New York, 2005), pp. 100-1
16. Though Mitchison often ended up writing her novels in the drawing room anyway, perpetuating the familiar female tradition of writing in common domestic rooms as Jane Austen did. Alternatively she did her writing on the Tube or on trains. See Naomi Mitchison, You May Well Ask (London, 1986), p. 38
17. Kathleen Woodward, Jipping Street (London, 1983), p. 48
18. Mark Wigley, 'Untitled: The Housing of Gender', in Beatriz Colomina (ed.), Sexuality and Space (New Jersey, 1992), p 348
19. Rosner, Housing Modernism, p. 182
20. Woolf, A Room of One's Own, p. 96
21. Lady Stephen quoted in Jane Marcus, Virginia Woolf, Cambridge and A Room of One's Own: 'The Proper Upkeep of Names' (London, 1996), p. 30
22. Rosner, Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life, p. 120
23. Virginia Woolf, Diary of Virginia Woolf, vol. 3, 1925-30 (London, 1977), p. 200
24. Georgia Johnston, 'Politics of Retrospective Space in Virginia Woolf's Memoir "A Sketch of the Past"', in Frederic Regard (ed.), Mapping the Self: Space, Identity, Discourse in British Auto/Biography (Saint-Etienne, 2003), p. 291
25. Melba Cuddy-Keane, "The Rhetoric of Feminist Conversation', in Kathy Mezei (ed.), Ambiguous Discourse: Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers (Chapel Hill and London, 1996), p. 137
26. Anna Snaith, Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations (London, 2000), p. 27
27. Eleanor Berry, 'Between the Study and the Living Room: Writing Alone and with Others', in Jo Malin and Victoria Boynton (eds), Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude (NY, London and Oxford, 2003), p. 197