Discover Virginia Woolf's landmark essay on womens struggle for independence and creative opportunity

A Room of One's Own is one of Virginia Woolf's most influential works and widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the women'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's gifted (imaginary) sister, and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. The work was ranked byThe Guardian newspaper as number 45 in the 100 World's Best Non-fiction Books. Part of the bestselling Capstone series, this collectible, hard-back edition of A Room of Ones Own includes an insightful introduction by Jessica Gildersleeve that explains the book'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 novelsMrs Dalloway (1925) andTo the Lighthouse (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.

Capstone Classics bringsA Room of One's Own to a new generation of readers who can discover how Woolf's book broke new artistic ground and advanced the position of women writers and creatives around the world.

Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist whose titles includeMrs. Dalloway (1925),To the Lighthouse (1927), andOrlando (1928). She was a pioneer in the modernist technique of stream of consciousness narrative writing, and a key figure in the Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals and artists.

Jessica Gildersleeve, PhD, is Associate Professor of English Literature in the School of Humanities and Communication at the University of Southern Queensland, and an authority on 20th century women writers.

Tom Butler-Bowdon is Series Editor of the Capstone Classics series, and has provided Introductions for PlatosRepublic, Adam SmithsWealth of Nations, MachiavellisThe Prince, Florence Scovel ShinnsThe Game of Life and How to Play It, and Kahlil GibransThe Prophet. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he is also the author of50 Economics Classics (2017) and50 Politics Classics (2015).

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