[b]Discover Virginia Woolf&apos;s landmark essay on women’s struggle for independence and creative opportunity[/b]
[i]A Room of One&apos;s Own[/i] is one of Virginia Woolf&apos;s most influential works and widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the women&apos;s movement. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, it is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë to the silent fate of Shakespeare&apos;s gifted (imaginary) sister, and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. The work was ranked by [i]The Guardian[/i] newspaper as number 45 in the 100 World&apos;s Best Non-fiction Books. Part of the bestselling Capstone series, this collectible, hard-back edition of A Room of One’s Own includes an insightful introduction by Jessica Gildersleeve that explains the book&apos;s place in modernist literature and why it still resonates with contemporary readers.
Born in 1882, Virginia Woolf was one of the most forward-thinking English writers of her time. Author of the classic novels [i]Mrs Dalloway[/i] (1925) and [i]To the Lighthouse[/i] (1927), she was also a prolific writer of essays, diaries, letters and biographies, and a member of the celebrated Bloomsbury Set of intellectuals and artists.
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