{"product_id":"a-room-of-ones-own-9780143138907","title":"A Room of One's Own","description":"\u003cb\u003eVirginia 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eOlga Dies Dreaming \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAnita de Monte Laughs Last\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classic \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn October 1928, Virginia Woolf delivered two lectures to the women's colleges at the University of Cambridge, arguing with inimitable wit and rhetorical mastery that an income and a room of one's own are essential to a woman's creative freedom. These lectures became the basis for \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e, a landmark in feminist thought, in which Woolf imagines the fictional Judith Shakespeare, sister to William and equally gifted but lost to history. How much genius has gone unexpressed, Woolf wonders, because women are not afforded the same privileges as men? A hundred years later, her brilliant polemic reverberates into our own time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this edition, Pulitzer Prize finalist for commentary and bestselling novelist Xochitl Gonzalez contributes an introductory essay that extends the argument to Woolf's housekeeper, breaking down divides of not only gender but also race and class in order to include \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e women in Woolf's profoundly inspiring call to realize their creative potential. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePenguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/b\u003e (1882-1941), one of the great twentieth-century authors, was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group and is a major figure in the history of literary feminism and modernism. She published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage Out, \u003c\/i\u003e in 1915, and between 1925 and 1931 produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, including \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e (1925), \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse\u003c\/i\u003e (1927), and \u003ci\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/i\u003e (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, including the playfully subversive \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e (1928) and the passionate feminist essay \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e (1929). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eXochitl Gonzalez \u003c\/b\u003e(introduction) is the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller \u003ci\u003eOlga Dies Dreaming \u003c\/i\u003eand the Reese's Book Club pick \u003ci\u003eAnita de Monte Laughs Last.\u003c\/i\u003e She was a finalist for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for her essays in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51424451952914,"sku":"9780143138907","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7d9dd085-cb42-47e9-a575-da3fbf3edd85.jpg?v=1776157759","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-room-of-ones-own-9780143138907","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}