Modern

Virginia Woolf

1882–1941

Novelist and essayist of the room

A Room of One’s Own began as lectures at Cambridge colleges that had only just let her in to speak. Money and a lock on the door are not metaphors in the essay. She priced them.

In the canon

  1. A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.A Room of One’s Own

All voices