A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf



 

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929, the essay
was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges
 at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator
 and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery
of the series of lectures, titled "Women and Fiction", and hence the essay, are considered non-fiction.
The essay is generally seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural
space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarc