A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN

‘ If Shakespeare had a sister as talented as he, would she have got the same opportunities to develop her skills?’ This was the burning question every feminist must have pondered over and agreed with while reading Virginia Woolf ’ s extended essay A Room of One’ s Own, which was first published in 1929. Woolf worked on the idea of how money and space serve as two very crucial factors in the independence of a woman, and especially one who wishes to write. In due course of her essay, she brings to the surface how women have undergone injustice in the face of biases and social constructs spanning across centuries.

Virginia Woolf (1882– 1941) is recognized as one of the most innovative writers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known as the author of Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), she was also a prolific writer of essays, diaries, letters and biographies. Both in style and subject matter, Woolf ’ s work captures the fastchanging world in which she was working, from transformation in gender roles, sexuality and class to technologies such as cars, airplanes and cinema. Influenced by seminal writers and artists of the period such as Marcel Proust, Igor Stravinsky and the post-impression