Bibliographic information:
ISBN: 9781913724009
Paperback with gold-foiled cover • 160pp • £7.99
129 mm x 198 mm
23 October 2020
BIC: DNF, JFSJ1, JFFJ
Territory: World English (excluding US)

A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf

Paperback with gold-foiled cover

160pp

ISBN: 9781913724009

£7.99

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In October 1928 Virginia Woolf was asked to deliver speeches at Newnham and Girton Colleges on the subject of ‘Women and Fiction’; she spoke about her conviction that ‘a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction’. The following year, the two speeches were published as A Room of One’s Own, and became one of the foremost feminist texts.

Knitted into a polished argument are several threads of great importance – women and learning, writing and poverty – which helped to establish much of feminist thought on the importance of education and money for women’s independence. In the same breath, Woolf brushes aside critics and sends out a call for solidarity and independence – a call which sent ripples well into the next century.

 
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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was a Modernist writer, widely considered to be one of the most important of the twentieth century.
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