Versi yang lain dari pidato ini dibawakan Virginia Woolf di Kolese Girton dan Newnham, Universitas Cambridge, Oktober 20 dan 26, 1928. Sebagian, kebanyakan cerita tentang Judith si adik Shakespeare, pernah diterjemahkan dan diterbitkan di Jurnal Perempuan No. 48 ?Pengetahuan Perempuan?, dengan judul ?Kamar Kecil Milikku Sendiri?.
But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what, has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain. When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant. They might mean simply a few remarks about Fanny Burney, a few more about Jane Austen, a tribute to the Brontës and a sketch of Haworth Parsonage under snow; some witticisms if possible about Miss Mitford, a respectful allusion to George Eliot; a reference to Mrs Gaskell, and one would have done. But at second sight the words seemed not so simple. The title "Women and Fiction" might mean, and you may have meant it to mean, women and what they are like, or it might mean women and the fiction that they write, or it might mean women and the fiction that is written about them, or it might mean that somehow all three are inextricably mixed together and you want me to consider them in that light. But when I began to consider the subject in this last way, which seemed the most interesting, I soon saw that it had one fatal drawback: I should never be able to come to a conclusion. I should never be able to fulfil what is, I understand, the first duty of a lecturer - to hand you, after an hour's discourse, a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever. All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point: a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved. I have shirked the duty of coming to a conclusion upon these two questions; women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. baca kelanjutannya di http://jurnalperempuan.multiply.com kami menyediakan ruang untuk berkomentar atau sampaikan melalui email [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ===================================================== Pojok Milis Komunitas FPK: 1.Milis komunitas FPK dibuat dan diurus oleh pembaca setia KOMPAS 2.Topik bahasan disarankan bersumber dari KOMPAS dan KOMPAS On-Line (KCM) 3.Moderator berhak mengedit/menolak E-mail sebelum diteruskan ke anggota 4.Kontak moderator E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5.Untuk bergabung: [EMAIL PROTECTED] KOMPAS LINTAS GENERASI ===================================================== Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Forum-Pembaca-Kompas/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Forum-Pembaca-Kompas/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
