For A Room of One's Own is not only one of the key texts of feminism, it also makes easy reading (and was possibly written in the very beautiful room – in Virginia Woolf’s cottage in the country – seen on this page). Well, this has been so for ninety years, and if a Persephone reader knows a girl who has not read it, then they should remedy this error at once. Virginia Woolf herself, wondering what people would make of the book, assumed they would say (patronisingly) ‘Mrs Woolf is so accomplished a writer, that all she says makes easy reading… this very feminine logic… a book to be put in the hands of girls.’ But we also hope that many of them will want to own the Persephone edition and to reread it and that they will want to give it to someone who has not yet read it. It is true that many of our readers will already have read A Room of One's Own, indeed we hope that this is the case. We take such pleasure in our collection of Persephone books, as a group rather than a mere stream of disparate titles, that it had become increasingly absurd not to include one of the great documents of twentieth-century feminist history amongst them.
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