Un cuarto propio | Tres guineas

This edition brings together two emblematic essayistic works by Virginia Woolf on the condition of women, which marked the eruption of the feminist movement.

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

The essay A Room of One's Own (1929), considered a classic in feminist criticism studies, brings to the table issues that still spark lively debates today, such as women's economic dependence on men, family care, and the figure of women as inspiring muses for artists but with little presence in the practice of creativity. The famous sentence that has been cited in countless studies, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction," is an example of the evolution of her feminist thought.

In Three Guineas (1938), Woolf revisits the theme of women's independence, deeply analyzing the discrimination they suffer, and vindicates the right to have the same education and opportunities as men. The underlying message is that only in this way would a rational and peaceful world be achieved, where a lady could freely answer any question.

These two texts can be read together insofar as Three Guineas can be considered an elaboration of the themes already raised in A Room of One's Own. Both have much to say and many of the issues outlined remain relevant, for Western women are free to speak, express opinions, and have a room of their own, but often no one has learned to listen to them.

Reviews:
"What an immense writer, how severe and resounding in her anger as a woman fed up with limitations."
Antonio Muñoz Molina

"Woolf's legendary essay on discrimination."
Tiempo

"The social and economic disadvantage of women writers like Jane Austen, who had to write her novels in a living room with people around, gives rise to an essay in which the feminist aspiration for economic and creative independence is metaphorized in the vindication of that room of one's own from the title."
Encuentros de lecturas

"Woolf reflects lucidly and asks questions for an active dialogue, a dialogue through history in which the author presents a series of facts impartially, dissects reality cleanly, aseptically, without taking sides, without any sentimentality; this is our reality, she seems to tell us, there is no possible deception."
La Nueva España

"Probably one of the most influential non-fiction works of the 20th century."
Financial Times

"Fierce, energetic, funny."
Independent on Sunday