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 education and independent income — and the titular "room of one's own" — prevents most women from reaching their full literary and intellectual potential. As relevant in its insight and indignation today as it was when first published, "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.
With an introduction by British art historian Frances Spalding.