Literary modernism · feminist essay · 1882–1941
Virginia Woolf
Free thought needs a room, an income and a tradition.
London · Sussex
Reading guides
A thread to guide your reading.
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
Money, a room and freedom
Follow how A Room of One’s Own turns income, privacy and education into conditions of literary creation.
A Room of One’s OwnOutsiders against war
Examine how Three Guineas connects the exclusion of women from education and the professions to militarism and fascism.
Three GuineasReading for oneself
Use The Common Reader and Modern Fiction to practise a free, attentive way of reading that forms its own judgments.
The Common Reader