A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

112 Seiten

2020
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-241-43628-8 (ISBN)

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'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one's own?'

A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928 and became a landmark work of feminist thought.

Covering everything from why a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write, to authors such as Jane Austen, Aphra Behn and the Brontë sisters, and the tragic story of Shakespeare's fictional sister Judith, it remains a passionate assertion for female creativity and independence in a world dominated by men.

'Fierce, energetic, humorous' Hermione Lee

Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out, Night and Day and Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.07.2020
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Modern Classics
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	89 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-241-43628-1 / 0241436281
ISBN-13	978-0-241-43628-8 / 9780241436288
Zustand	Neuware