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Introduction

Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One's Own in 1929 after she presented lectures on 'Women and Fiction' at the two newly established women's Colleges at Cambridge University the year prior.  She dines at the resplendent men's colleges, contrasting them sharply with the poverty of the women’s coll…

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