"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
In 'A Room of One's Own', Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister-a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If...
This annotated edition of the landmark inquiry into the women's role in society by one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers, Viriginia Woolf's classic A Room of One's Own features an introduction by English and Women's Studies professor Susan Gubar, perfect for critical...
La contribuci n de una de las mejores narradoras del siglo XX al feminismo. En 1928 a Virginia Woolf le propusieron dar una serie de charlas sobre el tema de la mujer y la novela. Lejos de cualquier dogmatismo o presunci n, plante la cuesti n desde un punto...
In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf postulates that women faced barriers in literature and society during her day. Woolf argues for financial independence and personal space as essential for female creativity, making this a go-to essay for feminists and civil rights activists.
Discover Virginia Woolf's landmark essay on women's 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...
Part of the Hero Classics series "Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size." Based on two talks given by the author, and first published...
Head of the Bloomsbury Group -- one of the most brilliant generations of the intellectuals in British culture-- and a novelist with an almost mythical aura, Virginia Woolf was also an teacher of essay. The phrase that lends the title of the book «A woman needs money and a room...
Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's...
Release Date: Feb 11, 2025
'If Shakespeare had a sister as talented as he, would she have got the same opportunities to develop her skills?' This was the burning question every feminist must have pondered over and agreed with while reading Virginia Woolf 's extended essay A Room...
" 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." If Shakespeare had a sister as talented as he, would she have got the same opportunities to develop her skills? Constructed around Woolf's idea that to...
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay...
One of the most poignant feminist writings of the twentieth century, this extended essay explores the limits women face as writers in a male-dominated society. Virginia Woolf draws on female writers of the past, including Jane Austen and the Bront ...
A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts. In this influential extended essay, Woolf outlines what women need in order to fully make use of their innate abilities. Using provocative...
Release Date: Jan 7, 2025
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El ensayo sobre la condici?n de la mujer que se ha convertido en un icono de la literatura y del feminismo.
«Virginia Woolf es dios, nadie ha escrito mejor. --Milena Busquets Considerado uno de los textos fundadores del feminismo...
A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended...