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 and using powerful images and memorable thought experiments -such as a fictional sister of William Shakespeare, who is as talented as ...

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 and 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.