Book 28: A Room of One's Own — Virginia Woolf [100 Great Books]
The Room She Demanded, and the World She Changed
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A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882 into a household that took literature seriously. Her father, Leslie Stephen, was a prominent critic and editor, and the family home on Hyde Park Gate was a gathering point for some of the most formidable minds in Victorian England. Woolf grew up surrounded by books, by conversation, by the assumption that ideas mattered. Her brothers were sent to Cambridge. She was educated at home.
