A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas

ISBN-13: 9780241371978 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 432 str.

Virginia Woolf

Opis

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fictionRanging from the silent fate of Shakespeares gifted (imaginary) sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of Ones Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Published almost a decade later, Three Guineas breaks new ground in its discussion of men, militarism and womens attitudes towards war. These two pieces reveal Virginia Woolfs fiery spirit, sophisticated wit and genius as an essayist.

O autorze

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.