A Room of One's Own/Three Guineas

Synopsis

'a landmark of feminist thought and a rhetorical masterpiece' guardianranging from the silent fate of shakespeare's gifted imaginary sister to jane austen, charlotte brontë 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.