A seminal, widely studied feminist polemic that touches on both literature and politics, A Room of One's Own is essential reading for those wishing to understand the progress that has been made in women's rights and the struggles that still lie ahead.

Virginia Woolf [1882-1941] geldt als een der belangrijkste en meest vernieuwende schrijvers van de twintigste eeuw. Haar wereldberoemde romans, zoals «Mrs Dalloway» (1925), «To the Lighthouse» (1927), «Orlando» (1928), «The Waves» (1931) en «The Years» (1937), worden beschouwd als meesterwerken van de modernistische literatuur. Zij experimenteerde immers op uiterst overtuigende wijze met psychologische motieven, onorthodoxe verhaalstructuren, doorbreking van chronologie en «stream ...

With an Introduction and Notes by Merry M. Pawlowski, Professor and Chair, Department of English, California State University,Bakersfield. Virginia Woolf's singular technique in Mrs Dalloway heralds a break with the traditional novel form and reflects a genuine humanity and a concern with the experiences that both enrich and stultify existence.

Society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway is giving a party. Her thoughts and sensations on that one day, and the interior monologues of others whose lives a...

Flush was an English cocker spaniel who belonged to the nineteenth-century poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Virginia Woolf learned of him from the love letters Elizabeth wrote to her future husband, fellow poet Robert Browning, and found ‘the figure of their dog made me laugh so, I couldn't resist making him a Life.’ The resulting ‘biography’ combines sensuous imaginative description with sharp social comment, and brings Woolf’s unsentimental humour and insight to the fore. We see F...

Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this collection, the author leads us on a transformative journey through the liberating powers of the mind.

For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged.

When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day, little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband, and that a gulf of war, grief and loss will have opened in the meantime. As each character tries to readjust their memories and emotions with the shifts of time and reality, this long-delayed excursion will also prove to be a journey of self-discovery and fulf...

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'Een kamer voor jezelf' van Virginia Woolf.

Woolf was een van de belangrijkste modernistische schrijvers van de twintigste eeuw. In deze heruitgavevan haar essay A Room of One's Own (1929), vertaald door Monique ter Berg, bereikt dit iconische werk

een nieuw publiek.

In de discussie die Woolf met vele versies van haarzelf aangaat, staat één stelling centraal: een vrouw die fictie wil schrijven, heeft geld nodig en een kamer met ee...