Room of One's Own & Complete text see also Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown & Complete text see also A Letter to a Young Poet & Complete text see also Three Guineas & Complete text Essay collections (Review) (Review) Complete text (Review) First American edition published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1950. & also here — (1934). "Walter Sickert: A Conversation" . Contributions (Digital edition) Autobiographical writing (Review) (see Moments of Being) , in (excerpts) , in (excerpts – 1st ed.) Memoir Club Contributions Diaries and notebooks Letters (Review) Photograph albums List of Album Guides Album 1 MS Thr 557 (1863–1938) Album 2 MS Thr 559 (1909–1922) Album 3 MS Thr 560 (1890–1933) Album 4 MS Thr 561 (1890–1947) Album 5 MS Thr 562 (1892–1938) Album 6 MS Thr 563 (1850–1900) Collections Views In her lifetime, Woolf was outspoken on many topics that were considered controversial, some of which are now considered progressive, others regressive. She was an ardent feminist at a time when women's rights were barely recognised, and anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist and a pacifist when chauvinism was popular. On the other hand, she has been criticised for views on class and race in her private writings and published works. Like many of her contemporaries, some of her writing is now considered offensive. As a result, she is considered polarising, a revolutionary feminist and socialist hero or a purveyor of hate speech. Works such as A Room of One's Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938) are frequently taught as icons of feminist literature in courses that would be very critical of some of her views expressed elsewhere. She has also been the recipient of considerable homophobic and misogynist criticism. Humanist views Virginia Woolf was born into a non-religious family and is regarded, along with her fellow Bloomsberries E.M. Forster and G.E. Moore, as a humanist. Both her parents were prominent agnostic atheists. Her father, Leslie Stephen, had become famous in polite society for his writings which expressed and publicised reasons to doubt the veracity of religion. Stephen was also President of the West London Ethical Society, an early humanist organisation, and helped to found the Union of Ethical Societies in 1896. Woolf's mother, Julia Stephen, wrote the book Agnostic Women (1880), which argued that agnosticism (defined here as something more like atheism) could be a highly moral approach to life. Woolf was a critic of Christianity. In a