"Una Habitaci�on Propia" esconde la reflexi�on que la autora hizo para un ciclo de conferencias sobre la literatura y la mujer. El ensayo recorre la historia literaria de la mujeres, cuyo fin �ultimo es el de reivindicar para el g�enero femenino la posibilidad de ser admitido en una cultura que hasta entonces se hab�ia mostrado como uso exclusivo de los hombres, en una sociedad inglesa de una pronunciada idiosincrasia patriarcal.En "Una...

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction . . ." First published in 1929, A Room of One's Own is Virginia Woolf's pioneering work on women in literature. An accessible yet fiercely astute polemic, it is a crystallisation of the intelligent analysis behind her novels, and confirms her as a writer not only of style, but of undeniable substance. Ranging from discussing Austen's pandering to a male writing style, to imagining...

"An insightful, witty look at Virginia Woolf through the lens of the extraordinary women closest to her"--

An intimate work of memoir and literary criticism describes how the author found literary solace and insights in Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse" while mourning the death of her beloved father.

I took off my wedding ring for the last time--a gold band with half a line of "Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath etched inside--and for weeks afterwards, my thumb would involuntarily reach across my palm for the warm bright circle that had gone. I didn't fling the ring into the long grass, like women do in the movies, but a feeling began bubbling up nevertheless, from my stomach to my throat: it could fling my arms out. I was free ... A few years into...