A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas

A landmark of feminist thought and a rhetorical masterpiece GuardianRanging from the silent fate of Shakespeares gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity A Room of Ones Own based on a lecture given by Woolf at Girton College Cambridge is one of the great feminist polemics. Published almost a decade later Three Guineas breaks new ground in its discussion of men militarism and womens attitudes towards war. These two pieces reveal Virginia Woolfs indomitable spirit sophisticated wit and genius as an essayist.Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Michèle Barrett About the Author Virginia Woolf born in 1882 was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels includeThe Voyage OutNight and Day andJacobs Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces includingMrs DallowayTo the LighthouseOrlando and the experimentalThe Waves. Her later novels includeThe Years andBetween the Acts and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism journalism and biography including the passionate feminist essayA Room of Ones Own. Suffering from depression she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.