Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-127) and index.
Contents
Virginia Woolf and her world -- The importance of a room of one's own -- Critical reception -- Women's colleges and a room of one's own -- Women and society: Patriarchy and the place of the outsider -- A sociology of creativity -- Social institutions and creativity -- Female creativity and literary history -- The essay as novel: Technique in a room of one's own -- Difficulties and contradictions The blind spots of a room of one's own.