{"product_id":"a-room-of-ones-own-by-virginia-woolf-rare","title":"Found Object No. 0012.26 Petra, Jordan, A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eVirginia Woolf asks a deceptively simple question: \u003cstrong\u003eWhat does a woman need in order to create?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer answer, \u003cstrong\u003emoney and a room of her own, \u003c\/strong\u003ebecomes the starting point for a fierce, elegant investigation of who has historically been allowed to make art and who has been denied the time, privacy, education, and freedom to do so. Moving between fiction, history, literary criticism, and imagined lives, including Shakespeare’s brilliantly gifted but doomed fictional sister—Woolf exposes how much genius may have disappeared simply because women were never given the conditions in which it could survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Room of One’s Own\u003c\/strong\u003e is less a manifesto about writing than a haunting argument about \u003cstrong\u003ewhat the world loses when certain people are never given the space to become themselves. \u003c\/strong\u003eWoolf developed the book from lectures delivered at Cambridge’s women’s colleges in 1928, the same year British women gained voting rights on equal terms with men. Her argument was deeply personal: an inheritance from her aunt had given her the financial freedom she believed every woman writer deserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDiscovered at an outdoor bookstall among the ancient sandstone ruins of Petra, Jordan, this Arabic-language edition carries Woolf’s enduring demand for intellectual freedom far beyond the English rooms in which it was first conceived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslation credit: Asmaa Mostafa\u003cbr\u003eReview\/editing: Dr. Islam Fathy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFound in a Vendor Stall, Petra, Jordan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paper + Stone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53029665538329,"sku":null,"price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/9365\/2249\/files\/ChatGPTImageAug19_2026_09_12_10PM.png?v=1787188506","url":"https:\/\/paperstoneshop.com\/products\/a-room-of-ones-own-by-virginia-woolf-rare","provider":"Paper + Stone","version":"1.0","type":"link"}