Why is it that men, and not women, have always had power, wealth, and fame? Woolf cites the two keys to freedom: fixed income and one's own room. Foreword by Mary Gordon.

"An intimate portrait of Jane Austen, Dorothy Wordsworth, and their world-- two women torn between revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, artistic creativity and emotional upheavals"--Front jacket flap. "Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, but their lives have never been examined together before. They both lived in Georgian England, navigated...