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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Collecting two book-length essays, "A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas" is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist writing, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. This "Penguin Modern Classics" edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Mich ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a ficti ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
A 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 indepe ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic
Originally published in 1929, "A Room of One's Own" is an essay by Virginia Woolf based on two lectures that she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College in 1928. Within it, Woolf uses metaphors to examine social injustice related to women and their lack of free expression. Highly recommended for ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks
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 by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classics
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published in 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrat ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
Category: Fiction
This is a brand new series of five of Woolf's major works, in beautifully designed hardback editions. "A Room of One's Own", based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imag ...Show more
A Room of One's Own AND Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf
Category: Classic
WITH AN INTRODUCTION, PLUS EXTENSIVE NOTES AND REFERENCES BY HERMIONE LEE. This volume combines for the first time in paperback two books by Virginia Woolf which are among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on Patriarchy and sexual inequ ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Hero Classics) by Virginia Woolf
Category: Literature | Series: Hero Classics Ser.
Part of the Hero Classicsseries "Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." Based on two talks given by the author, and first published in September 1929, Virginia Woolf's seminal essay r ...Show more
A Room of One's Own (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Virginia Woolf
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Based on two lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling scores with reactionary critics and laying the founda ...Show more