A Room of One's Own

“Brilliant, incandescent … An impossibly elegant argument about the myriad ways that women’s voices have been silenced, suppressed, and otherwise forgotten… . Do not let this volume sit on your shelves unread. Make this beautiful Penguin Classics edition more than a totem to your values, or a lovely marker of how far we all have come. It is so much more: It is an active, breathing rallying cry. It is an enduring font for dialogue, discussion, and debate. And it holds in its pages the soul of a woman who demanded, and inspires us to demand, our full liberation.” —Xochitl Gonzalez, from the Introduction

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group and a significant voice in literary feminism and modernism. Her first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915. Between 1925 and 1931, she penned what are now considered her masterpieces, including Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931). Woolf also produced a prolific body of work encompassing literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, notably the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and the seminal feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929).

Xochitl Gonzalez (introduction) is the author of the New York Times bestseller Olga Dies Dreaming and the Reese’s Book Club pick Anita de Monte Laughs Last. She was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her essays published in The Atlantic.

Michèle Barrett (editor, notes) is Professor Emerita of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Virginia Woolf—Women and Writing and Women’s Oppression Today.

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