by Virginia Woolf · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9780241387528
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«A Room of One's Own» is Virginia Woolf's feminist essay, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (112 pages, in English).
Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, Woolf analyzes the material and social conditions that limited women's literary creation in the early twentieth century. She argues for women's economic and intellectual independence and evokes Shakespeare's imaginary sister to show silenced female talent.
Originally published in 1929; this English-language Penguin Classics edition was published on June 6, 2019.
For readers of essays and feminist literature, as well as those studying Virginia Woolf and twentieth-century modernism.
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.
