A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
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Asked to speak about women and fiction, Woolf walks through an Oxbridge college, a London library and an imagined life for Shakespeare's gifted sister, and arrives at her answer: a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. The essay grew out of two lectures given at Cambridge in 1928 (1929).
About the author
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English novelist and essayist, and one of the central figures of literary modernism. She wrote novels that follow consciousness rather than plot — a day in a city, a decade passing in an empty house — and found a form for the way attention actually moves. With her husband Leonard she ran the Hogarth Press, which published her own books along with T. S. Eliot and the first English translations of Freud. Her work includes Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves and the essay A Room of One's Own.