A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf

Softcover

ISBN 10: 070120947X ISBN 13: 9780701209476

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1991

Virginia Woolf's passionate essay on women and fiction is one of the great polemics of our age. Full of wit as well as anger, this highly influential little book has given heart to women readers and writers ever since. She lays bare the structure of male privilege and female exclusion - from independence, income, education - she evokes the spirit of past writers, of lost poets of the sixteenth century, of novelists like Charlotte Bronte, burnt by rage, who died 'at war with her lot...young, cramped and thwarted'. If women had a room of their own and five hundred pounds a year, Shakespeare's sister, if born again, would at last find it possible to live, and write her poetry.

Review:

Probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in this century (Hermione Lee Financial Times)

Book Description:

With an exclusive new introduction by Ali Smith, Virginia Woolf's famous polemic is brought to new life on audio