A Penguin Classics a Room of One's Own
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 Austen and Carlotte Brontë to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major twentieth-century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. Between 1925 and 1931 Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to…
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December 2, 2014VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was born in London. A pioneer in the narrative use of stream of consciousness, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. This was followed by literary criticism and essays, most notably A Room of One’s Own, and other acclaimed novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando.
The New Dress
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez; Edited with Notes by Michèle Barrett
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Street Haunting
Virginia Woolf; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Orlando
Virginia Woolf; Foreword by Andrea Lawlor; Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert; Edited by Brenda Lyons
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Orlando
Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Jeanette Winterson
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf; Edited with Notes by Stella McNichol; Foreword by Patricia Lockwood; Introduction by Hermione Lee
Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf