Virginia Woolf is currently recognized as one of the great authors of the 20th century. She is a great novelist and essayist and a key figure in the history of literature as a feminist and modernist. “But - you will say - we asked him to speak about women and the novel. What does that have to do with A Room of My Own? "

A room of her own arose from a lecture Virginia Woolf gave at Girton College, Cambridge, in 1928. Touring Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë and why neither of them could have written War and Peace, reflecting on the silent fate of the gifted (and imaginary) sister of Shekspeare, on the effects of economic deprivation and place of women in society, Virginia Woolf concludes that to write novels, a woman must have money and a room of her own. This essay gives us one of the great feminist polemics of the century.