A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

Second Edition

Virginia Woolf
Edited by Anna Snaith

Oxford World's Classics

A new edition of Woolf's iconic essays, classics of feminist literature, in which she argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and war.
The edition draws upon the latest discoveries in Woolf scholarship, including rediscovered proofs, records of Woolf's research for Three Guineas, publication of the fan letters received in response to the essays and more.
The Introduction considers Woolf's engagement with the issues of the day, especially her involvement with suffrage campaigns, anti-fascist organizations, and her anti-imperial politics.
Full notes identify the many historical, literary, and political references.
Includes the original photographs, Woolf's own notes for Three Guineas, a full chronology of Woolf's life, Biographical Preface by Frank Kermode, and an up-to-date bibliography.

New to this Edition:

New introduction by Anna Snaith, drawing on scholarly developments in Woolf studies, including discovery of the proofs of A Room of One's Own and identification of the photographs in Three Guineas
Revised and updated Select Bibliography.
New and expanded Notes.
Re-set text, and photographs for Three Guineas restored to their original positions.

A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

Second Edition

Virginia Woolf
Edited by Anna Snaith

Description

'Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends on intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor...'

In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and conflict. In A Room of One's Own she explores centuries of limitations placed on women, as well as celebrating the creative achievements of the women writers who overcame these obstacles. In this first history of women's writing, she describes the importance of education, financial independence, and equality of opportunity to creative freedom. Three Guineas was written under the threat of fascism and impending war. A radical articulation of Woolf's pacifist politics, it investigates the causes of gender inequalities and the ways in which women's historic outsider position make them crucial in the prevention of war.

Both these works started life as talks to groups of young women, and their engaging wit and informality establish Woolf as one of the twentieth-century's greatest essayists. Their arguments continue to reverberate in feminist discourse to this day.

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A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

Second Edition

Virginia Woolf
Edited by Anna Snaith

Oxford World's Classics

Author Information

Virginia Woolf

Edited by Anna Snaith, King's College London

Anna Snaith is the author of Virginia Woolf: Public and Private Negotiations (2000), and Modenist Voyages: Colonial Women Writers in London 1890-1940 (2014). She is the editor of the Cambridge University Press Edition of Woolf's The Years (2012) and Locating Woolf: the Politics of Space and Time (with Michael Whitworth, 2007).

A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas

Second Edition

Virginia Woolf
Edited by Anna Snaith

Oxford World's Classics

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Virginia Woolf in the twenty-first century

As we approach 26 March 2015, the centenary of the publication of Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, it seems apposite to consider how her writing resonates in the twenty-first century. In the performing and filmic arts, there certainly seems to be something lupine in the air.

Posted on March 18, 2015

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