"My first review earned me one pound, ten shillings, and sixpence, and with that I bought a Persian cat. Then I got ambitious. A Persian cat is all very well, I told myself, but a Persian cat isn't enough. I have to buy a car. And that's how I became a novelist because, strange as it may seem, people will get you a car if you tell them a story."
(Virginia Woolf, <Professions for Women>, 1931).
Throughout her career, Virginia Woolf wrote more than one hundred articles and reviews for the most prestigious magazines and literary supplements of her time. This anthology brings together some of her most incisive works on women and literary creation; from the vindication of renowned authors such as Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, George Eliot, and Christina Rossetti to more extravagant ones such as Madame de Sévigné and the Duchess of Newcastle, as well as two of her most emblematic lectures: <Women and Narrative> and <Professions for Women>. The current selection recovers these works as the contours and immediacies necessary for constructing her iconic A Room of One's Own .
