A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)

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‘Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative

musing and political clarity’ Kate Mosse

Virginia Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women

writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal literary

establishment.

This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions

to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on

sexual inequality. A Room of One’s Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive

argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women

writers. The sequel, Three Guineas, is a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison

between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the

evils of fascism.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE