A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN

Category Classics
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 150

ISBN: 978-93-5520-054-9
Pages: 120 pages
Date: 5th January 2022

ABOUT THIS BOOK

‘If Shakespeare had a sister as talented as he, would she have got the same
opportunities to develop her skills?’
This was the burning question every feminist must have pondered over and
agreed with while reading Virginia Woolf ’s extended essay A Room of One’s
Own, which was first published in 1929. Woolf worked on the idea of how
money and space serve as two very crucial factors in the independence of a
woman, and especially one who wishes to write. In due course of her essay,
she brings to the surface how women have undergone injustice in the face
of biases and social constructs spanning across centuries.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Virginia Woolf(1882–1941) is recognized as one of the most innovative writers of
the twentieth century. Perhaps best known as the author of Mrs Dalloway(1925)
and To the Lighthouse(1927), she was also a prolific writer of essays, diaries, letters
and biographies. Both in style and subject matter, Woolf ’s work captures the fast-changing world in which she was working, from transformation in gender roles,
sexuality and class to technologies such as cars, airplanes and cinema. Influenced
by seminal writers and artists of the period such as Marcel Proust, Igor Stravinsky
and the post-impressionists, Woolf ’s work explores the key motifs of modernism,
including the subconscious, time, perception, the city and the impact of war. Her
‘stream of consciousness’ technique enabled her to portray the interior lives of her
characters and depict the montage-like imprint of memory.