PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS : A ROOM OF ONES OWN – VIRGINIA WOOLF

But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction – what has that got to do with a room of one s own? A Room of One s Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928 and became a landmark work of feminist thought. Covering everything from why a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write, to authors such as Jane Austen, Aphra Behn and the Bronte sisters, and the tragic story of Shakespeare s fictional sister Judith, it remains a passionate assertion for female creativity and independence in a world dominated by men. Fierce, energetic, humorous Hermione Lee