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A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784870874

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 210g

  • RRP: £7.99

A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)

Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal literary establishment.

This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. The sequel, Three Guineas, is a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784870874

  • Length: 288  Pages

  • Dimensions: 178mm x 18mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 210g

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • 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

  • Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity

    Kate Mosse

  • Achingly relevant

    Natasha Walter, Guardian

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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.

Virginia Woolf

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