A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's landmark extended essay on women, literature, and material freedom, first delivered as lectures at Cambridge women's colleges in 1928. Blending fiction, polemic, historical inquiry, and lyrical meditation, Woolf argues that a woman must have "money and a room of her own" to write. Its modernist style-digressive, ironic, and imaginatively speculative-places it beside the era's boldest experiments in form while directly confronting the patriarchal literary ...