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A Room of One's Own (Penguin Great Ideas) by Virginia Woolf
Category: Culture | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of the sexes.
A Room of One's Own (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"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? I will try to explain." So begins what is widely regarded as the foundation text of feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own. Probably Woolf's most readable and e ...Show more
A Room of One's Own Pink Popular Penguin Edition by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic | Series: Pink Popular Penguin
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. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written War and peace, over the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister, over t ...Show more
A Room of One's Own: Popular Penguins by Virginia Woolf
Category: Personal Development | Series: Popular Penguins
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. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written War and Peace, over the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister, over t ...Show more
A Room of One's Own: The Feminist Classic by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
Discover Virginia Woolf's landmark essay on women’s struggle for independence and creative opportunity A Room of One's Own is one of Virginia Woolf's most influential works and widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the women's movement. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambr ...Show more
A Room of One's Own & The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
Category: Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
A Room of One’s Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf’s best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society.The essay lays bare the woman artist’s struggle for ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic
Vintage Feminism- classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON 'What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?' Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity - a room of one's own. All things denied to most women around the world living in ...Show more
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by WOOLF VIRGINIA
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind...' Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, 'A Room of One's Own' inter ...Show more
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic Papercover | Series: Collins Classics
Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ interweaves Woolf’s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Brontë to Shakespeare’s gifted (and imaginary) sister. ‘Three Guineas’, Woolf’s most impassioned polemic, came almost a ...Show more
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series
This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of wome ...Show more
A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Gi ...Show more