A Room of One’s Own

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no GATE, no lock, no Bolt that you can set upon the freedom of My mind.” a room of one’s own, based on a lecture given at girton college Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare’s gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty constructed around Woolf’s idea that to write fiction a woman must have money and a room of her own, This revolutionary work depicts a woman’s predicaments as she struggles deep within for some place of her own where she can work without restrictions. It brings forth the differences, biases and conventional attitudes that have caused immense suffering to women across the centuries.