A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf's concern with feminist thematics are dominant in A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN (1929).
In it she made her famous statement: "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

The book originated from two expanded and revised lectures the author presented at Cambridge University's Newnham and Girton Colleges in October 1928. Woolf examined the obstacles and prejudices that have hindered women writers. She separated women as objects of representation and women as authors of representation, and argued that a change in the forms of literature was necessary because most literature had been "made by men out of their own needs for their own uses."