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First published in 1988. This volume situates the work of the Fabian Women's Group in the context of both Fabian socialism and the thought and practise of the early twentieth-century Women's Movement. These tracts have been instrumental in developing present day discourse on the sexual, economic and social aspects of women's lives

Ideas about memory as the source of human subjectivity developed throughout European liberal democracies in the first half of the 20th century, stimulated by war trauma and universal suffrage. Two archives of memory – psychoanalytic case histories and oral history – reveal the workings of generational memory in the formation of welfare states and social democracy. Generation is understood as people born into similar social environments, coming under similar influences at a particular historical time.

Este trabajo intenta captar los sentimientos existentes en el anhelo de "una habitaciónpropia" que cobra resonancia en los años 20. Cómo nacieron, se abrieron camino y fueroncapaces de tener resonancia en la consciencia de las mujeres de aquella época. Con estafinalidad se analizan las obras de Virginia Woolf y Kathleen Woodward en el contexto en quesurgen, profundizando en cómo, para ellas, una habitación propia representa un lugar dondepensar, una retirada hacia lo desconocido. ; The present article pretends to pick up the existing feelings in the longing for "A Roomof One's own" wich gathered strenght in the twenties. The article describes how these feelingsemerged and awakened an echo in the conscience of the womwn of that time. With this aimin mind, the work of Virginia Woolf and Kathleen Woodward are studied within the contextin whi they arose, deepening in how a room of their own represents for both autor a placewhere they can meditate, a retirement path towards the unknown.