A Room of One's Own

First published in 1929 from Cambridge lectures, this long essay asks what a woman needs in order to write fiction. A narrator walks an Oxbridge college, is turned away from the library, compares a rich men's dinner with a poor women's one, and then works in the British Museum on the thin record of women's lives. She invents Judith Shakespeare, a gifted sister who cannot find a room or a wage for her art, and she looks at how anger and poverty warp the page. The argument settles on money and a locked room of one's own. The book is a critical essay, not a novel.

Bound in light brown cloth cloth, cover blocked in blue with an image. Light brown slipcase printed with a blue pattern.