A Room of One's Own

What's in this book, at a glance — five things readers want to know before they start.

What this book is about

Delivered as two lectures at women's colleges in 1928, Woolf's extended essay begins with a simple observation—she was refused access to a library because she was a woman—and expands into one of the most influential works of feminist criticism ever written. She imagines Shakespeare's gifted sister, traces the economic conditions that have silenced women's creativity, and argues for the androgynous mind as the ideal creative state. Learned, witty, and still urgently relevant nearly a century later.