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    A Response to Virginia Woolf’s, “A Room of One’s Own”

    By Joy Lynn Clark (This response to the reading was part of an assignment in Latin American women writers class taught by Professor Christian Roa at The University of Illinois at Chicago) Virginia Woolf is a poet and author. Woolf is a predecessor of Jane Austen and was one of the first women to have tenure at a University.  Unfortunately, she was not allowed to enter the library or sit on the grass.  “A Room of One’s Own”, was about what she has to live with as the only educated woman on campus and what she wants to achieve as a writer. Because this paper was meant to be a…