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The first edition, first impression of this groundbreaking feminist work, by noted Bloomsbury author, Virginia Woolf. The first edition, first impression.Virginia Woolf's influential essay 'A Room of One's Own, exploring the social and economic injustices faced by women in society.First published in September 1929, this essay is reworked from two lectures Woolf delivered at Cambridge University.Written by the Bloomsbury author Virginia Woolf, a central figure of the literary group, herself known for her experimental writings and affair with fellow author Vita Sackville-West.Published by the Hogarth Press, the Bloomsbury publishing house founded ran by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The press was founded in the interwar period, as printing became a hobby for the couple, diverting Virginia when her writing became too stressful. Both Woolf's taught themselves to use a printing press, publishing 527 titles from the period of 1917 to 1946. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Spine is faded. Light marks to the cloth, and spots to the spine. A touch of bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Endpapers are age-toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, Near Fine.

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at the University of Cambridge. In this essay, Woolf addresses the limitations and prejudices that affect women writers and the conditions necessary for their creative work. The book is noted for its famous dictum, 'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.'