Book Description:
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf is a foundational feminist text that blends essay, fiction, and literary criticism in a powerful exploration of gender, creativity, and economic freedom. Based on a series of lectures delivered at women’s colleges at Cambridge in 1928, Woolf reflects on the historical exclusion of women from education and authorship, famously concluding that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Through vivid metaphors, imagined histories (such as the fictional "Judith Shakespeare"), and sharp insights, Woolf challenges the patriarchal structures that have limited women’s artistic potential. She examines the absence of female voices in literary tradition and calls for a future in which women can write, think, and create freely.
Lyrical, witty, and deeply influential, A Room of One’s Own remains a landmark of feminist thought and an essential work on the relationship between gender and artistic expression.
