Full notes identify the many historical, literary, and political references.

The Introduction considers Woolf's engagement with the issues of the day, especially her involvement with suffrage campaigns, anti-fascist organizations, and her anti-imperial politics.

The edition draws upon the latest discoveries in Woolf scholarship, including rediscovered proofs, records of Woolf's research for Three Guineas, publication of the fan letters received in response to the essays and more.

A new edition of Woolf's iconic essays, classics of feminist literature, in which she argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and war.

She raises questions concerning militarism, education, and social and gender inequality that are relevant to this day. On 28 March 1941, a few months before the publication of her final novel, Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf committed suicide.In these two classic essays of feminist literature, Woolf argues passionately for women's intellectual freedom and their role in challenging the drive towards fascism and conflict.

This intense creative productivity was often matched by periods of mental illness, from which she had suffered since her mother's death in 1895. She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay. Between 19 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931). It was during this time that she and Leonard Woolf founded The Hogarth Press with the publication of the co-authored Two Stories in 1917, hand-printed in the dining room of their house in Surrey. These first novels show the development of Virginia Woolf's distinctive and innovative narrative style.

Three years later, her first novel The Voyage Out was published, followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacob's Room (1922).

In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. After his death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography.

A room of one's own and three guineas