A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf,General Press

ISBN 10: 9354990282 / ISBN 13: 9789354990281

Published by GENERAL PRESS, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Room of One's Own
• Publisher: GENERAL PRESS
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9354990282
• ISBN 13: 9789354990281
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister—a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, she takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one—women must have a fixed income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create. Woolf's blazing polemic 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.

About the Author

Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."