In October 1928, Virginia Woolf delivered two lectures at Cambridge arguing that a woman must have money, and a room of her own, if she is to write fiction. The essay that grew from those lectures became one of the most luminous and enduring works of feminist thought in the English language — part polemic, part literary imagination, entirely unforgettable.Through her invented figure of Shakespeare's sister — equally gifted, equally ambitious, and erased by history — Woolf asks what the world has lost through centuries of exclusion. Readers describe it as a revelation: one that gave them permission to want a room of their own, and that still speaks with direct intimacy across nearly a century. Despite its weight of subject, it reads like a conversation with a brilliant, funny, compassionate friend.This Penguin Select Classics edition presents the original, unabridged text in a premium hardbound collector's format with sprayed edges — a book to annotate, return to, and treasure.
