A room of one's own and Three guineas / Virginia Woolf.
By: Woolf, Virginia
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BookPlace of publication: LondonPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersDate of publication: 2014Description: ix, 302 pages : 18 cm.ISBN: 9780007558063.Subject(s): Women and literature | Women -- Social conditions | Women authors -- Economic conditions | WarDDC classification: 824.912 W883 2014 Summary: 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 Bronte 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.
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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 Bronte 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.
(From the back cover)
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