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A Room of One's Own
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  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241436288
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $19.99

A Room of One's Own

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Paperback
20 Oct 2020
Hardback
12 Aug 2025
EBook
2 Sept 2004
EBook
3 May 2002
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A reissue of the successful PMC edition of Woolf's landmark feminist polemic

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 writing 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.
  • Published: 20 October 2020
  • ISBN: 9780241436288
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 112
  • RRP: $19.99
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About the author

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.
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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.

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