A Room Of One’s Own

Author: Virginia Woolf

Pages: 88

A Room of One s Own is a long feminist essay by Virginia Woolf which was first published in 1929. Woolf based her polemic on two lectures she delivered to two different Cambridge student societies at Newnham and Girton Colleges on 20 and 26 October 1928 respectively. Her famous quote a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction serves as the theme to explore women s plight in her time and in past. She argues that it is not the dearth of talent but their circumstances which have denied women their place in the world. A classic in its own right, A Room of One s Own still stands tall amidst feminist literature.