num_pages: 365
description:  A Room of One's Own , based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity.  Three Guineas was published almost a decade later and breaks new ground in its discussion of men, militarism and women's attitudes towards war. These two pieces reveal Virginia Woolf's fiery spirit and sophisticated wit and confirm her status as a highly inspirational essayist.
language: English
title: A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
titlecomplete: A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
genres: 20th Century, Essays, Philosophy, Womens, Literature, Classics, Feminism, Nonfiction, British Literature, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 4462
publisher: Penguin Classic