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Updated January 20, 1998
Created January 20, 1998
What is the current critical status of A Room of One’s Own?
Most feminist scholars consider Room a landmark in feminist criticism, "the first major achievement of feminist criticism in the English language" (Gilbert and Gubar 1317). As of June 1997, the MLA Bibliography listed 71 articles in the last 34 years (1963-97). Only three of these were published before 1980, suggesting that attention to this text has grown with the renewed interest in Woolf in the 1980s, and the maturing of feminist criticism. In recent criticism (especially since the 1980s), there has been a move to prefer Woolf’s sequel to A Room, Three Guineas (1938) as the more interesting text.