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  • Published: 3 May 2002
  • ISBN: 9780141903873
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 112

A Room of One's Own




Virginia Woolf’s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts is as powerful and resonant as ever.

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 polemic 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 independence and intellectual freedom.

The text in this edition is accompanied by explanatory footnotes.

  • Published: 3 May 2002
  • ISBN: 9780141903873
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 112

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Praise for A Room of One's Own

One realises afresh the full meaning of originality, the magic of the mind which plays around concrete facts as though they were all spirit. And when it is finished it is with a renewed sense of zest and stimulus that one takes up life again and looks anew at objects which before were only ordinary.

Guardian