A Room of One's Own
$33.06
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
22 July 2025
Summary
Virginia Woolf’s pioneering work of feminism, “probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in the twentieth century” (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs Last.
A Penguin Classic
In October 1928, Virginia Woolf delivered two lectures to the women’s colleges at the University of Cambridge, arguing…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143138907 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143138901 |
| Author: | Virginia Woolf, Michèle Barrett, Xochitl Gonzalez |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 22 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 113g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 127mm x 195mm |
Critics Review
“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
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a prominent twentieth-century author, a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, and a significant contributor to literary feminism and modernism. Her debut novel, The Voyage Out, was published in 1915. Between 1925 and 1931, she created what are now considered her most celebrated works, including Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931). Woolf also produced an extensive body of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biographies, notably the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and the influential feminist essay A Room of One’s Own (1929).
Xochitl Gonzalez (Introduction)
Xochitl Gonzalez 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)
Michèle Barrett 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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