{"product_id":"9781840226799","title":"A Room of One's Own \u0026 The Voyage Out","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Woolf, Virginia, Minogue, Dr. Sally, Carabine, Dr. Keith \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eClassic fiction (pre c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 5 February 2012 by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Wordsworth Classics' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 480 pages\u003cbr\u003e193 x 127 x 26 | 304g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Room of One’s Own (1929) has become a classic feminist essay and perhaps Virginia Woolf’s best known work; The Voyage Out (1915) is highly significant as her first novel. Both focus on the place of women within the power structures of modern society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essay lays bare the woman artist’s struggle for a voice, since throughout history she has been denied the social and economic independence assumed by men. Woolf’s prescription is clear: if a woman is to find creative expression equal to a man’s, she must have an independent income, and a room of her own. This is both an acute analysis and a spirited rallying cry; it remains surprisingly resonant and relevant in the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novel explores these issues more personally, through the character of Rachel Vinrace, a young woman whose ‘voyage out’ to South America opens up powerful encounters with her fellow-travellers, men and women. As she begins to understand her place in the world, she finds the happiness of love, but also sees its brute power. Woolf has a sharp eye for the comedy of English manners in a foreign milieu; but the final undertow of the novel is tragic as, in some of her finest writing, she calls up the essential isolation of the human spirit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Guisborough Bookshop Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49323298160976,"sku":"9781840226799","price":3.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0860\/4988\/2448\/files\/9781840226799.jpg?v=1727700925","url":"https:\/\/guisboroughbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781840226799","provider":"guisboroughbookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}