Lo que comenzó como una conferencia sobre ?Las mujeres y la novela? para un auditorio de estudiantes universitarias en 1928, se ha convertido en uno de los ensayos más emblemáticos del feminismo. Virginia Woolf plantea que, para poder...
Based on two lectures given at Cambridge colleges and first published by the Hogarth Press in 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay about the predicament of female writers and a stirring call for autonomy and recognition. As well as settling...
El deseo de escribir una pieza teatral ocupó una vez a Virginia Woolf, pero solo halló concreción en esta pieza, concebida para una representación privada. Se llama Freshwater (Agua Dulce) como la localidad donde se desarrolla...
Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The novel's opening section teems with the noise, complications, bruised emotions, joys and quiet tragedies of everyday f...
The Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their intimacies and estrangements, anxieties and triumphs - mapped out against the bustling rhythms of London's streets during the first decades of the twentieth century, as their Victorian upbringing...
'What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?' Security, confidence, independence, a degree of prosperity - a room of one's own. All things denied to most women around the world living in Virginia Woolf's time, and before...
This handsome gift edition presents Virginia Woolf's classic work, A Room of One's Own , featuring a luxurious gold embossed cover design, gilded page edges and patterned endpapers.
'I feel the need of an escapade after these serious poetic experimental books..I want to kick up my heels & be off.'Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries of English history, first as a man, then as...
Written after Woolf had finished her emotionally draining work on The Waves, Flush purports to be an autobiography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's eponymous cocker spaniel, charting the dog's early days in the countryside, his adoption by the famous...