The Writer's Room: The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love
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Book Overview A journey into the unique spaces where some of literature's greatest writers created their most memorable worksVirginia Woolf famously wr...
A journey into the unique spaces where some of literature's greatest writers created their most memorable works
Virginia Woolf famously wrote in A Room of One's Own that "it is necessary to have five hundred a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry." Writers have worked in all kinds of places, from garrets and sheds to boarding houses, bathrooms, and even while on the move. What is it that fascinates us about the writer's room? This book takes readers inside literature's creative spaces to explore this tantalizing question.
Beginning with her own secondhand writing desk, Katie da Cunha Lewin invites us to consider how these environments embody the craft of writing and shape the literary works we love. She paints vivid portraits of Woolf's garden room at Monk's House, Emily Bront
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Publisher: PRINCETON UNIV PR | ISBN: 0691283834
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