A Room Of One's Own / Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1929 and based on lectures she delivered at two women's colleges at Cambridge University. The work is a foundational text of feminist literary criticism, famously arguing that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction". Using a fictional narrator and narrative structure, Woolf explores the historical disenfranchisement of women and the societal conditions necessary for female creativity to flourish.