A Room of One's Own (Paperback)

Virginia Woolf

ISBN 10: 0241436281 / ISBN 13: 9780241436288

Published by Penguin Books Ltd, London, 2020

About this Item

Paperback. A reissue of the successful PMC edition of Woolf's landmark feminist polemicA Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Woolf's blazing writing on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Room of One's Own (Paperback)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241436281
• ISBN 13: 9780241436288
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

''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?''

A Room of One''s Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928 and became a landmark work of feminist thought.

Covering everything from why a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write, to authors such as Jane Austen, Aphra Behn and the Brontë sisters, and the tragic story of Shakespeare''s fictional sister Judith, it remains a passionate assertion for female creativity and independence in a world dominated by men.

''Fierce, energetic, humorous'' Hermione Lee