It wasn’t the story of my generation of feminists, but it was the story of the generation that made everything possible for us’ and The Observer writes that ‘ The Women’s Room took the lid off a seething mass of women’s frustrations, resentments and furies it was about the need to change things from top to bottom it was a declaration of independence’. Fay Weldon deems it ‘the kind of book that changes lives’ Linda Grant says ‘what an earthquake this book was. Let us begin with the high praise which The Women’s Room has garnered since its publication in 1977 (the USA) and 1978 (the UK). Added bonuses came along with The Women’s Room: the copy pictured, which I was gifted for Christmas, is both a Virago and an entry upon the Virago Modern Classics list (number 437, no less), and the book also formed part of my Project Read My Own Books list. This was a book which had been selected for our original list when we excitedly created it last year, and the sole choice which was carried across to our revised reading schedule. When you run a book club with a feminist best friend, it is perhaps inevitable that seminal “girl power” texts such as Marilyn French’s The Women’s Room will creep onto your reading list.
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