A ROOM OF ONES OWN AND THREE GUINEAS COLLINS — VIRGINIA WOOLF

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 Brontë to 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