A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas

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A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas is a powerful collection that blends Virginia Woolf's incredible visions and eloquence.

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind….”

Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, A Room of One’s Own interweaves Woolf’s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Brontë to Shakespeare’s gifted (and imaginary) sister.

Three Guineas, Woolf’s most impassioned polemic, came almost a decade later and broke new ground by challenging the very notions of war and masculinity.

This volume combines two inspirational, witty, and urbane essays from one of literature’s pre-eminent voices; collectively they constitute a brilliant and lucid attack on sexual inequality.