A Room of One's Own

David Bradshaw, Stuart N. Clarke

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781118299203
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

A Room of One's Own, is one of Virginia Woolf's most influential works and is widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the women's movement. This timely and important new edition adopts the complete text of the first British edition published in 1929.

• Features a comprehensive introduction detailing the process and composition of Woolf's original essay and the evolution of its subsequent publication history
• The first comprehensive and authoritative edition of this foundational text of the feminist movement, and one of the most significant works in Woolf's own canon
• The only volume based on comparisons of each of the British editions of A Room of One's Own that appeared in Woolf's lifetime
• Incorporates extensive explanatory notes which reveal the essay's broader political, historical, social, and literary contexts
• Includes a comprehensive appendix highlighting variations between each of the British editions that appeared in Woolf's lifetime and the first American edition; alterations from Woolf's uncorrected proofs; and current editorial emendations incorporated in this new edition

Appendix
Textual Variants and Emendations

Abbreviations Used in this Appendix

A1	first US edition (Fountain Press, 21 October 1929)
A2	second US edition (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 24 October 1929)
E1	first UK edition (The Hogarth Press, 24 October 1929)
E2	second impression of E1 (The Hogarth Press, November 1929)
E3	third impression of E1 (The Hogarth Press, December 1929)
E4	fourth impression of E1 (The Hogarth Press, December 1929)
E5	fifth impression of E1 (The Hogarth Press, March 1930)
E6	sixth impression of E1 (Uniform Edition, The Hogarth Press, 1931 [i.e. 6 November 1930])
E7	seventh impression of E1 (Uniform Edition, The Hogarth Press, November 1931)
E8	eighth impression of E1 (Uniform Edition, The Hogarth Press, April 1935)
SH	this Shakespeare Head edition
UP	uncorrected proofs, 10–22 July 1929, R. & R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh (held by the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library)

Textual Variants between the American and British First Editions

Poetry in E1 is in smaller type; in A1 and A2 it is in standard type. A vertical bar indicates the end of a line when this may have affected a variant.

E1.5	A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN1 {above text}
A1.[1], A2.[1]	A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN {fly-title}
E1.5	CHAPTER I
A1.3, A2.3	CHAPTER ONE
E1.5	But
A1.3	BUT {first letter is an open capital and drops down to the line below}
A2.3	BUT {first letter is in bold and drops down to the line below}
E1.5	^1 This essay is based upon two papers read to the Arts Society at Newnham and the Odtaa at Girton in October 1928. The papers were too long to be read in full, and have since been altered and expanded.
A1.[vii], A2.[v...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series page
• Preface to the Edition
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN
• Notes
• Appendix: Textual Variants and Emendations
• End User License Agreement