A Room of Ones Own and Three Guineas (Collins Classics)

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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind

Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, A Room of Ones Own interweaves Woolfs personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bront to Shakespeares gifted (and imaginary) sister. Three Guineas, Woolfs most impassioned polemic, came almost a decade later and broke new ground by challenging the very notions of war and masculinity.

This volume combines two inspirational, witty and urbane essays from one of literatures pre-eminent voices; collectively they constitute a brilliant and lucid attack on sexual inequality.

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Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity
Kate Mosse

Achingly relevant
Natasha Walter, Guardian

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Virginia Woolf was an English novelist, essayist, short story writer, publisher, critic and member of the Bloomsbury group, as well as being regarded as both a hugely significant modernist and feminist figure. Her most famous works include Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and A Room of Ones Own.