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‘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’ interweaves Woolf’s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Brontë to Shakespeare’s gifted (and imaginary) sister. ‘Three Guineas’, Woolf’s most impassioned polemic, came almost a decade later and broke new ground by challenging the very notions of war and masculinity.

This volume combines two inspirational, witty and urbane essays from one of literature’s pre-eminent voices; collectively they constitute a brilliant and lucid attack on sexual inequality.

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Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, short story writer, publisher, critic and member of the Bloomsbury group, as well as being regarded as both a hugely significant modernist and feminist figure. Her most famous works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0007558066
Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Collins (8 May 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780007558063
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0007558063
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 11.1 x 2.1 x 17.8 cm

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Virginia Woolf is now recognized as a major twentieth-century author, a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist. Born in 1882, she was the daughter of the editor and critic Leslie Stephen, and suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother, in 1895, and her step-sister Stella, in 1897, leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life. Her father died in 1904 and two years later her favourite brother Thoby died suddenly of typhoid.

With her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, she was drawn into the company of writers and artists such as Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, later known as the Bloomsbury Group. Among them she met Leonard Woolf, whom she married in 1912, and together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917, which was to publish the work of T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and Katherine Mansfield as well as the earliest translations of Freud. Woolf lived an energetic life among friends and family, reviewing and writing, and dividing her time between London and the Sussex Downs. In 1941, fearing another attack of mental illness, she drowned herself.

Her first novel, The Voyage Out, appeared in 1915, and she then worked through the transitional Night and Day (1919) to the highly experimental and impressionistic Jacob's Room (1922). From then on her fiction became a series of brilliant and extraordinarily varied experiments, each one searching for a fresh way of presenting the relationship between individual lives and the forces of society and history. She was particularly concerned with women's experience, not only in her novels but also in her essays and her two books of feminist polemic, A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938).

Her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), the historical fantasy Orlando (1928), written for Vita Sackville-West, the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931), the family saga of The Years (1937), and Between the Acts (1941). All these are published by Penguin, as are her Diaries, Volumes I-V, and selections from her essays and short stories.

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Mrs R Hammond

Classic and thought-provoking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 July 2023

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This extended essay is extremely interesting and there are many points in it I’ve heard referenced before, but didn’t know where they were from. A must read for any feminist.

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A feminist book from a man's view

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A Room Of One's Own is the end product of Virginia Wolff being asked to write two essays on '' Women and Fiction''.
The primary idea of the book is that women in the early 20th century needed' 'a room of one's own' ' and their own financial independence in order to write. Wolff then goes on to discuss a number of factors which support this idea. Although this book is now seen as feminist literature, it is also interesting to note that many of the arguments can be used today to describe wider society. For example, Wolff discussed that for anyone to write they needed a degree of affluence to spend the time to create any form of literature. Another is that a successful author needs to be adrogenous to be a great writer, so either a '' manly woman'' or a' 'womanly man' '.
The Book although serious is also funny. Wolff was left a lot of money from a rich aunt which allowed her to live as an independent woman in early 20th century.
The Book although brief is a good read and offers interesting philosophy on the history and present thoughts on writing literature.
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Martin Stanton

Relevant today

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 June 2022

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Beautifully written and still relevant today.
Nice collectors edition/

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Elizabeth Shillaker

Beautiful little books.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 May 2020

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These little books are lovely. A very handy size. I am starting to collect them. The small size means more room.

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PhillipSE5

such a beautiful edition..........great for a treat for yourself, excellent as a gift

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 April 2018

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THIS EDITION IS A WORK OF ART IN ITSELF.......... from the beautiful front cover to the excellent font and page layout

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Simon C - Ipswich

An insight into Virginia Woolf's thinking

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 December 2020

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This was interesting and there are some gems here. I find her style of writing difficult but would suggest that the reader persevere, it is worth the effort. I would have liked to have heard a bit more about the writers own methods.

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Audrey Birchley

Brilliant essay from Virgina Woolf

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 July 2014

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A brilliant essay from virgina Woolf.
The title sums up the core of the essay - the necessity for women writers of the early 20th century to have a fixed independent income [£500 a year] and a room of her own, essential requirements for free expression where the writer can give her work full attention without other demands upon her time. Such privileges the author had due to a legacy from her aunt; but in my opinion one which she fully appreciated and thus uses to ignite the theme of this essay.
Woolf takes us through the centuries of the dearth of women writers due to their lack of education - from a hypothetical sister of Shakespeare, who in a patriarchal society would be forbidden to give full rein to creative work even if her talent was obvious. She also examines notable writers such as Jane Austen, the Brontes, George Eliot, leading onto milestones in female emancipation such as Florence Nightingale, women's suffrage and the aftermath of the era of the first world war.
I particularly liked the way she queried obvious patriarchal privileges as a guest speaker at Oxbridge. Why a choice of wine with a gourmet meal for the male students/residents and only a bland meal with a water jug passed round for the women's college where she dined? In the year of 1928 she was well aware that there were discriminations and hurdles yet to be overcome, all of which she examines in her stream of consciousness fashion.
A must for all lovers of good literature, feminism and those with an interest in early 20th century society and culture.

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MRS H

Nice story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 April 2021

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Good read

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A Room of one’s Own by Virgina Wolfe

Reviewed in Canada on 10 January 2024

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Arrived in one day!!! The book was in superb condition and absolutely delighted the receiver of the gift who was inspired by this work when she was as a teenager. The book emphasized the need to to live a life of economic Independence. As a result, at age 60, she is celebrating a life lived with sovereignty and choice.

Superhero Spender

Great light read

Reviewed in the United States on 24 August 2023

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Purchased for a road trip. Paperback super sturdy

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Uma ótima introdução a Virginia Woolf

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Good Condition

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L'ho regalato a mia sorella che ha letto la versione in italiano e voleva avere anche la versione in inglese. Lei è molto contenta, l'ha letto diverse volte. Io purtroppo non ancora quindi non posso dire nulla sul contenuto

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