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Room of One's Own (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback / softback)
Based on 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
In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic licence of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income, and the titular `room of one's own', prevents
A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence.Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane
Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal literary establishment.This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack
In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and conflict. She raises questions concerning militarism, education, and social and gender inequality that are relevant to this
Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH 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
WITH AN INTRODUCTION, PLUS EXTENSIVE NOTES AND REFERENCES BY HERMIONE LEEThis volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this
Part of the Hero Classics series'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
'I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.' 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
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'
WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY LAWRENCE NORFOLK AND ELISABETH BRONFENJacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from childhood, to Cambridge University, and to his early adult life in artistic
'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'. So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she wrote her second series of essays. This is an informal, informative and witty celebration of our literary and social heritage by a writer
Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. In 'Reminiscences' Virginia Woolf focuses on the death of her mother, 'the greatest disaster that could happen', and its effect on her father, the demanding patriarch who took a high toll of