In this influential work of non fiction, Virginia Woolf outlines what women need to fully make use of their abilities. Published beautifully by Everyman’s Library, this edition is printed on acid-free, cream-wove paper, with full-cloth cases, gold foil stamping, decorative endpapers, and a silk ribbon marker. A Contemporary Classics hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf’s classic plea for a world in which women are free to use their gifts. In this influential extended essay & using powerful images and memorable thought experiments such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as her brother but limited in ways he was not, Woolf analyses the many ways in which women have been held back throughout history and still are in her own time.
