In the 1928 essay “a room of one’s own”, it refers to the space a woman needs to write fiction.
Specifically, Woolf says that a woman needs two things to be able to write: “money and a room of her own.”
The essay was drawn from two papers Woolf gave at the Arts Society at Newnham and the Odtaa at Girton in 1928 on the subject of women and fiction.
Thackeray’s Vanity Fair (1848) is subtitled “A Novel Without a Hero”.
“Udolpho” in Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho was the castle of the evil Montoni in the Italian Apennines, and site of many scary events.
Melville’s model of passive resistance Bartleby the Scrivener calmly replies to his boss, “I would prefer not to.” The short story “Bartleby the Scrivener” was first published anonymously in Putnam’s Magazine in 1853.
The first book printed in English is The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, a prose romance by Raoul Lefevre, printed by William Caxton in 1474 in Bruges, Belgium. Caxton himself translated it from the French. Caxton also printed the first dated book printed in English, Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers, published on November…
Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, “Hell is—other people” in his existential play No Exit (1944).
Tauris came first, about 414-412 B.C.; Aulis followed about 405 B.C. In terms of the storyline, however, the order is reversed. Aulis tells of Agamemnon’s decision to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia in order to free the Greek fleet from the harbor at Aulis. Tauris tells of Iphigenia after the goddess Artemis snatches her to safety,…