A Room of One's Own

  • A Room of One's Own
    By Virginia Woolf

    A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, 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 ...

  • A Room of One's Own
    By Virginia Woolf, Susan Gubar

    Describes the domestic obligations, social limitations, and economic factors that impede literary creativity in women, in the story of William Shakespeare's talented sister, who, because of the mores of her time, never expresses her genius ...

  • A Room of One's Own
    By Virginia Woolf, General Press

    The professor was nothing now but a faggot burning on the top of Hampstead Heath. Soon my own anger was explained and done with; but curiosity remained. How explain the anger of the professors? Why were they angry?

  • A Room of One's Own
    By Virginia Woolf

    The following year, the two speeches were published as A Room of One’s Own, and became one of the foremost feminist texts.

  • A Room of One's Own
    By Virginia Woolf

    The following year, the two speeches were published as A Room of One’s Own, and became one of the foremost feminist texts.

  • A Room of One's Own: The Feminist Classic
    By Virginia Woolf

    Make this attractive, high-quality hardcover edition a permanent addition to your library Enjoy an insightful introduction by Jessica Gildersleeve, who connects the themes of the text to the concerns of today's audience Capstone Classics ...

  • A Room of One's Own
    By Fiona Robinson, Tim Smith-Laing

    Woolf's focus on the everyday suppression of women was a turning point in feminism, marking a realization that gaining legal and voting rights was just the first step on the road to true equality.

  • A Room of One's Own: The Feminist Classic
    By Virginia Woolf

    Make this attractive, high-quality hardcover edition a permanent addition to your library Enjoy an insightful introduction by Jessica Gildersleeve, who connects the themes of the text to the concerns of today's audience Capstone Classics ...

  • A Room of One's Own
    By Virginia Woolf

    The argument she makes in this pioneering work of feminism is that in order to excel as artists women writers require both a literal and a figurative space they can claim as their own.

  • A Room of One's Own
    By Virginia Woolf

    Virginia Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of writers and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.

  • A Room of One's Own
    By Virginia Woolf

    Features a comprehensive introduction detailing the process and composition of Woolf's original essay and the evolution of its subsequent publication history The first comprehensive and authoritative edition of this foundational text of the ...

  • A Room of One's Own
    By Virginia Woolf

    An essay based on two lectures. Within it, Woolf uses metaphors to examine social injustice in related to women and their lack of free expression.

  • A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
    By Virginia Woolf

    While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled "Women and Fiction", and hence the ...

  • A Room of One's Own
    By Virginia Woolf

    It is, above and beyond all else, a very model of essay writing. This Broadview edition provides a reliable text at a very reasonable price.

  • A Room of One's Own
    By Virginia Woolf

    In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century.

  • A Room of One's Own: The Feminist Classic
    By Virginia Woolf

    Make this attractive, high-quality hardcover edition a permanent addition to your library Enjoy an insightful introduction by Jessica Gildersleeve, who connects the themes of the text to the concerns of today's audience Capstone Classics ...

  • A Room of One's Own: With an Introductory Essay "Professions for Women"
    By Virginia Woolf

    Read & Co. Great Essays is proudly republishing this classic essay now in a new edition complete with the introductory essay "Professions for Women".

  • A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas
    By Virginia Woolf

    This volume combines two books by Virginia Woolf which are among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century.

  • A Room of One's Own: Women Writers and the Politics of Creativity
    By Ellen Bayuk Rosenman

    With its theme of autonomy and independence, Virginia Woolf's 1929 essay A Room of One's Own has become part of our modern cultural vocabulary. It was the first literary history...

  • A Room of One's Own: Virginia Woolf (History and Criticism, Classics, Literature) [Annotated]
    By Virginia Woolf

    The essay is based on a couple of lectures that Woolf gave at two women's colleges at the University of Cambridge. This book has 85 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1929.