{"product_id":"a-room-of-ones-own-9781509843183","title":"A Room of One's Own","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDesigned to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this extraordinary essay, Virginia Woolf examines the limitations of womanhood in the early twentieth century. With the startling prose and poetic license of a novelist, she makes a bid for freedom, emphasising that the lack of an independent income, and the titular \"room of one's own\", prevents most women from reaching their full literary potential. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As relevant in its insight and indignation today as it was when first delivered in those hallowed lecture theatres, \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own \u003c\/i\u003eremains both a beautiful work of literature and an incisive analysis of women and their place in the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an afterword by the British art historian Frances Spalding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVirginia Woolf was born in 1882, the youngest daughter of the Victorian writer Sir Leslie Stephen. She was educated at home with her sister, Vanessa, in a literary environment. The death of Woolf's mother in 1895 and her father in 1904 led to the first of the serious nervous breakdowns that would come to feature heavily in her life. Shortly afterwards she moved with her sister and two of her brothers to 46 Gordon Square, which was to be the first meeting place of the circle of writers and artists known as the Bloomsbury Group. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, with whom she would later establish the Hogarth Press, and also published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage Out\u003c\/i\u003e. It would be followed by eight others, including \u003ci\u003eMrs Dalloway \u003c\/i\u003e(1925) and \u003ci\u003eTo the Lighthouse \u003c\/i\u003e(1927), which together establish her position as one of the most important modernists of the twentieth century. Woolf committed suicide in 1941.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MacMillan Collector's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185926504722,"sku":"9781509843183","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4ff7bb33-e788-49a1-8b81-5e8bcb795b27.jpg?v=1776157625","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-room-of-ones-own-9781509843183","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}