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Author: Woolf, VirginiaISBN: 9780141044880Publisher: Penguin UKYear first published: 29 Jun 2009Pages: 120 Format: Paperback / softbackPlt;iPgt;A Room of OneP#39;s OwnPlt;/iPgt; gr ew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written Plt;iPgt;War and PeacePlt;/iPgt;, over the silent fate of ShakespeareP#39;s gifted (and imaginary) sister, over the effects of poverty and chastity on female creativity, she gives us one of the greatest feminist polemics of the century.Plt;brPgt; Show more