In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister--a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically different. This imaginary woman never writes a word and dies by her own hand, her genius unexpressed. If only she had found the means to create, argues Woolf, she would have reached the same heights as her immortal sibling. In this classic essay, she takes on the establishment, using her gift of language to dissect the world around her and give voice to those who are without. Her message is a simple one: women must have a fixed income and a room of their own in order to have the freedom to create.
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WOOLF, VIRGINIA
Virginia Woolf (Londres, 1882), autora genial a quien debemos una de las aportaciones más originales a la estructura de la novela en el siglo XX, publicó numerosas obras, entre las que destacan La señora Dalloway (1925), Orlando (1928), Las olas (1931) o Entre actos (1941). En su ensayo Una habitación propia (1929) describió las dificultades que encontraban las mujeres para dedicarse a la literatura. En marzo de 1941, aquejada de una penosa enfermedad mental, se suicidó metiéndose en un río con los bolsillos llenos de piedras.