A Room of One’s Own

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Virginia Woolf’s highly influential essay on women and literature, which considers both literary history and future opportunity.

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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

• 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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