A Room of One's Own

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In this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic licence of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasizing that the lack of an independent income, and the titular 'room of one's own', prevents most women from reaching their full literary potential. As relevant in its insight and indignation today as it was when first delivered in those hallowed lecture theatres, A Room of One's Own remains both a beautiful work of literature and an incisive analysis of women and their place in the world. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf features an afterword by the British art historian Frances Spalding. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Virginia Woolf was born in 1882. The death of her mother in 1895 and her father in 1904 led to her first serious nervous breakdown. Shortly after she moved with her siblings to 46 Gordon Square, which was to be the first meeting place of the Bloomsbury Group. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, with whom she would establish the Hogarth Press, and published her first novel, The Voyage Out. This was followed by eight others, including Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), which established her as one of the most important modernists of the 20th century. Woolf committed suicide in 1941. Frances Spalding CBE, FRSL is a British art historian and writer and the Editor of The Burlington Magazine.