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Results for 'virginia woolf'
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A Room of One's Own
'Brilliant interweaving of personal experience, imaginative musing and political clarity' Kate Mosse Virginia Woolf exposes the prejudices and constraints against which women writers struggled for centuries, and argues for a more equal literary establishment. This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One's Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. The sequel, Three Guineas, is a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HERMIONE LEE
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On Women
A new collection of feminist essays from the influential writer, activist and critic, Susan SontagIt's her clarity that can make you gasp, combined with her confidence . . . what shines through this book is the extraordinary suppleness of her mind . . . She articulated, in punchy, matter-of-fact prose, thoughts that for most of us would stay at best half-formed
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Flaneuse
Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and LondonLauren Elkin is the author of several critically-acclaimed books, including Scaffolding, Art Monsters, and Flâneuse. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, the New York Times, Granta, Harper's, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, and Frieze, among others. An award-winning translator, she lives between Paris and London.
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A Short History of Queer Women
Dispensing with the patriarchal bullshit, Kirsty Loehr exposes centuries of outrageous straightwashing
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Je eigen kamer
Wat als Shakespeare een geniale zus had gehad? Zou zij dezelfde kansen hebben gekregen als haar broer? Had zij haar talent kunnen ontplooien? Virginia Woolf denkt van niet. Het leven van Judith Shakespeare zou al op voorhand een verdoemd, mislukt leven geweest zijn. In de loop van de geschiedenis hebben vrouwen immers nooit de financiële en materiële onafhankelijkheid gehad die nodig is om ongestoord te kunnen werken en nadenken. En ook van de (mannelijke) kritiek hoefden ze geen steun te verwachten – zoals bleek toen Charlotte en Emily Brontë, George Eliot en Jane Austen hun werk publiceerden. In deze klassiek geworden, nog altijd actuele tekst uit 1928 houdt Virginia Woolf een vurig pleidooi om vrouwen letterlijk én figuurlijk meer ruimte te geven.
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Essayism
Essayism is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive and at the same time held together by a personal voice and a polemical point.
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Things I Don't Want to Know
Living Autobiography 1An up-to-date version of 'A Room of One's Own' . . . I suspect it will be quoted for many years to come
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A Poet Can Survive Everything But a Misprint
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement.Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895.Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen extravagantly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.
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The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing
A vast global project ... a joyous multiplicity of writings incorporating collective manifestos, poetry, fiction, and autobiography ... Readers will find both old acquaintances and new discoveries ... admirably and intentionally reaching beyond received western ideas ... an endlessly fascinating anthology
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A House Full of Daughters
In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siècle Washington DC, an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she has come from
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Secret Voices
A Year of Women’s DiariesA fascinating and important collection of extracts from women's diaries through the centuries, including such iconic voices as Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Anne Frank, with a selection of pieces for every day of the year.
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Rural Hours
The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond LehmannAn outstanding piece of literary scholarship ... A biography that is far more intimate than most ... By choosing to embrace the daily routines of rural life, Baker proposes, these women found that the quality of their attention shifted ... Rural Hours is also a provocation to the present. No one could finish this book without concluding that the most important thing to any writer is solitude ... [It] reminds us that today we too often fail to afford our writers this necessity
€ 14,95