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Subject: A Room of One's Own
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: hartmann-ga
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Posted: 14 Nov 2005 09:38 PST
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Question ID: 592806
Where did Virginia Woolfe get the title for her book, A Room of One's
Own....was it related to an Emily Dickinson poem and if so which one?
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Subject: Re: A Room of One's Own
From: geof-ga on 14 Nov 2005 18:14 PST
 
I don't think there's much evidence that VF read ED's poems; and it's
quite possible that, if she did, she didn't like them. "A Room of Ones
Own" has that title because that's what VF thought that women writers
needed - together with an income of 500 pounds - if they were going to
match the best male writers.
Subject: Re: A Room of One's Own
From: geof-ga on 15 Nov 2005 02:13 PST
 
Sorry for the mental abberation above. VF should of course be VW (Virginia Woolf),
Subject: Re: A Room of One's Own
From: myoarin-ga on 15 Nov 2005 07:33 PST
 
Perhaps, but many sites for Emily Dickinson come up with this with a
similar quotation  - such as this one:
Barnes & Noble.com - Poems of Emily Dickinson - Emily Dickinson ...
ABOUT THE BOOK. Poems of Emily Dickinson ... Only poems, written quietly in a
room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a desk ...

This seems to be a quotation by someone else about ED's writing in
seclusion, perhaps in the introduction to a early published volume of
her works.

Maybe someone can source the line.

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