Reading Questions - A Room of One's Own

Use the following questions as (optional) guides for reading and reflecting on Chapters 3 and 4 of A Room of One's Own.

• Who is Judith Shakespeare, and why is she so significant to Woolf's argument?
• What do you learn about the history of women writers in Chapters 3 and 4?
• What does Woolf seem to suggest about the importance of rooms? What sorts of rooms does she discuss?
• At the conclusion of Chapter 3, Woolf addresses the college women in her "audience," remarking that they have "got [them]selves to college and enjoy sitting rooms--or is it bed-sitting rooms--of [their] own" (56). As women in college, what are your reactions to Woolf's ideas about the importance of having rooms of your own? What are your own relationships to your dorm rooms, bedrooms, or campus study rooms? What effect do these spaces have on your mind?