Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own is considered Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major twentieth-century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'.

A Room of One’s Own este considerat cel mai puternic eseu feminist al Virginia Woolf, care justifica necesitatea ca femeile sa posede libertatea intelectuala si independenta financiara. Bazat pe o prelegere sustinuta la Girton College, Cambridge, eseul este una dintre marile polemici feministe, variind in temele sale, de la Jane Austen si Charlotte Bronte la soarta tacuta a surorii supradotate (imaginare) a lui Shakespeare si efectele saraciei si constrangerilor sexuale. cu privire la creativitatea feminina. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) este considerata un autor si eseist important din secolul al XX-lea, o figura cheie in istoria literara ca feminista si modernista si centrul „Grupului Bloomsbury”.