A Room of One's Own

Woolf, Virginia; Nicolson, Nigel (editor) & Trautmann, Joanne (editor)

ISBN 10: 0156787326 / ISBN 13: 9780156787321

Published by Harcourt Trade Publishers, San Diego, CA, U.S.A., 1957

About this Item

cover scuffed with tape marks and 2 small hole punchings on back. fep has faded stamped lettering, and underlining throughout book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller Inventory # 328893

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Room of One's Own
• Publisher: Harcourt Trade Publishers, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1957
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156787326
• ISBN 13: 9780156787321
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Condition: Fair

About this title

Synopsis

One of the landmark works for feminists of this century grew out of two lectures Virginia Woolf delivered at Cambridge University in 1928. Asked to speak about women and fiction, Woolf presented to her audience a highly personal discusson of the questions preoccupying her. Her far-reaching intelligence, her energy and her compassionate wit shine throughout this brilliant and inspiring work.

Review

Surprisingly, this long essay about society and art and sexism is one of Woolf's most accessible works. Woolf, a major modernist writer and critic, takes us on an erudite yet conversational--and completely entertaining--walk around the history of women in writing, smoothly comparing the architecture of sentences by the likes of William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, all the while lampooning the chauvinistic state of university education in the England of her day. When she concluded that to achieve their full greatness as writers women will need a solid income and a privacy, Woolf pretty much invented modern feminist criticism.