A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas: Virginia Woolf

Ranging from the silent fate of Shakespeare`s gifted imaginary sister to Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity, A Room of One`s Own, based on a lecture given by Woolf at Girton College, Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Published almost a decade later, Three Guineas breaks new ground in its discussion of men, militarism and women`s attitudes towards war. These two pieces reveal Virginia Woolf`s indomitable spirit, sophisticated wit and genius as an essayist.