What’s behind the anger? On Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”

The Minefield
09/11/2023 54 min
What’s behind the anger? On Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”

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Nearly a century after its publication, Australian novelist Charlotte Wood joins Waleed and Scott to discuss what Virginia Woolf’s essay tell us about egotism, contempt, creative freedom and the possibility of moral transformation.

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