A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled "Women and Fiction", and hence the essay, are considered non-fiction. The essay is generally seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.
Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) war eine englische Schriftstellerin, die als eine der wichtigsten Autoren der Moderne gilt. 1912 heiratete sie Leonard Woolf, und 1917 gründete das Paar die Hogarth Press, die einen Großteil ihrer Arbeit veröffentlichte. Woolf hatte romantische Beziehungen zu Frauen, darunter Vita Sackville-West, die ihre Bücher auch über Hogarth Press veröffentlichte. Zu ihren bekanntesten Werken zählt der Essay "A Room of One's Own" (1929).View all by Virginia Woolf
