A Room of One's Own

The essay on the condition of women that has become an icon of literature and feminism.

"Virginia Woolf is God, no one has written better."
Milena Busquets

Considered one of the foundational texts of modern feminism, A Room of One's Own (1929) popularized ideas such as the importance of women's economic independence and the need to refute their historical representation as merely the artist's muse. The famous phrase that gives it its title, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction," continues to resonate in our time and calls for connecting the personal and the political.

This edition features the unsurpassed translation by Jorge Luis Borges, who, during the author's lifetime, called her "one of the most delicate intelligences and imaginations" in English literature and noted that, in this book built with musical grace, "dream and reality alternate and find their balance."

Critics have said about the author...
"In the work of Virginia Woolf there were inherited qualities and a will that were unprecedented and unrepeatable in the history of English culture."
T. S. Eliot

"Reading her, one perceives the functioning of great critical integrity."
Leonard Woolf

"Virginia Woolf laid the foundations for the novel of the future."
Jeanette Winterson

"What an immense writer, so severe and forceful in her anger as a woman fed up with limitations."
Antonio Muñoz Molina

"One of the most delicate intelligences and imaginations that happily experimented with the English novel."
Jorge Luis Borges

"Virginia Woolf held the light of the English language against the darkness."
E. M. Forster

"I cannot imagine a writer whose devotion to her art, effort, and severity with herself [...] remains an example that is both an inspiration and a judge."
W.H. Auden