A Room of One¿s Own and Three Guineas

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.¿Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind¿¿Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, ¿A Room of One¿s Own¿ interweaves Woolf¿s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bront¿o Shakespeare¿s gifted (and imaginary) sister. ¿Three Guineas¿, Woolf¿s most impassioned polemic, came almost a decade later and broke new ground by challenging the very notions of war and masculinity.This volume combines two inspirational, witty and urbane essays from one of literature¿s pre-eminent voices; collectively they constitute a brilliant and lucid attack on sexual inequality.