A Room of One's Own

[b]Discover Virginia Woolf's landmark essay on women’s struggle for independence and creative opportunity[/b] [i]A Room of One's Own[/i] is one of Virginia Woolf's most influential works and widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the women's movement. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, it is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister, and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity. The work was ranked by [i]The Guardian[/i] newspaper as number 45 in the 100 World's Best …