A Room of One’s Own
30 Mar, 2023
820 English and Old English literatures
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf’s highly influential essay on women and literature, which considers both literary history and future opportunity.
Guests
- Hermione Lee
5 episodes
Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford - Michele Barrett
2 episodes
Emeritus Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory at Queen Mary, University of London -
Alexandra Harris No other episodes
Professor of English at the University of Birmingham
Reading list
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Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground
Gillian Beer (Edinburgh University Press, 1996) Google Books → -
Reading Virginia Woolf
Julia Briggs (Edinburgh University Press, 2006) Google Books → -
Virginia Woolf
Alexandra Harris (Thames & Hudson, 2011) Google Books → -
Virginia Woolf
Dame Hermione Lee (Chatto & Windus, 1996) Google Books → -
The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf
Susan Sellers (ed.) (Cambridge University Press, 2010) Google Books → -
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf (ed. Michele Barrett) (Penguin, 1992) Google Books → -
A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf (ed. Anna Snaith) (Oxford University Press, 2015) Google Books → -
Women and Writing
Virginia Woolf (ed. Michele Barrett) (Women's Press and Harcourt Brace, 1979) Google Books → -
Women and Fiction: The Manuscript Versions of A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf (ed. S. P. Rosenbaum) (Blackwell, 1992) Google Books → -
Orlando
Virginia Woolf (ed. Rachel Bowlby) (Oxford University Press, 2008) Google Books → -
Selected Essays
Virginia Woolf (ed. David Bradshaw) (Oxford University Press, 2009) Google Books → -
The Common Reader
Virginia Woolf (Vintage Classics, 2003) Google Books →
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