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A Room of One's Own: The Feminist Classic

ISBN: 978-0-857-08882-6

April 2021

Capstone

208 pages

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A CLASSIC FEMINIST POLEMIC WITH ENDURING RELEVANCE

Since its publication in 1929, Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own has resonated with women around the world. Citing Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, and the fate of Shakespeare’s gifted (imaginary) sister, Woolf’s classic text reminds us of the supreme value of financial and social independence, and equality, in the creation of art and literature.

An insightful introduction by Jessica Gildersleeve connects the themes of the text to today’s audience, and reveals Woolf’s contribution to modernist literature. Now, a new generation of readers has the opportunity to discover a work that has stood the test of time.

About the Author

Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist whose titles include Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (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 Plato’s Republic, Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, Machiavelli’s The Prince, Florence Scovel Shinn’s The Game of Life and How to Play It, and Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. A graduate of the London School of Economics, he is also the author of 50 Economics Classics (2017) and 50 Politics Classics (2015).

www.butler-bowdon.com