A ROOM OF ONE S OWN AND THREE GUINEAS

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics. ‘Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate no lock no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind…’ Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929 ‘A Room of One’s Own’ interweaves Woolf’s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Brontë to Shakespeare’s gifted (and imaginary) sister. ‘Three Guineas’ Woolf’s most impassioned polemic came almost a decade later and broke new ground by challenging the very notions of war and masculinity. This volume combines two inspirational witty and urbane essays from one of literature’s pre-eminent voices; collectively they constitute a brilliant and lucid attack on sexual inequality.