´But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one´s own?´
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Room of One´s Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been
invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928 and became a
landmark work of feminist thought.
Covering everything from why a
woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write, to
authors such as Jane Austen, Aphra Behn and the Brontë sisters, and the
tragic story of Shakespeare´s fictional sister Judith, it remains a
passionate assertion for female creativity and independence in a world
dominated by men.