A Room Of One's own- Review

            Virginia Woolf''s essay  'A Room Of One's Own' is a landmark in twentieth century feminist thought. it  explores the history of women in literature through an unconventional and highly provocative investigation of the social and material conditions required for the writing of literature. She was born on January 25, 1882, in London. Woolf was educated at home by her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, the author of the Dictionary of English Biography, and she read extensively. Her mother, Julia Duck worth Stephen, was a nurse, who published a book on nursing. Her mother died in 1895, which was the catalyst for Virginia's first mental breakdown. Virginia's sister, Stella, died in 1897; and her father dies in 1904. in the essay Woolf speaks out against the traditional hierarchies. Her essay is a reconstruction and reenactment as well as an argument.

               Virginia Woolf  was giving a lecture on women and fiction. And she tells the audience that she is not sure if the topic should be what women are like, the fiction women write, fiction written about women, or a combination of three. she says that "a women must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction".             she uses the fictional narrator Mary Beton in the essay.

        The central point of A Room of One’s Own is that every woman needs a room of her own—something men are able to enjoy without question. A room of her own would provide a woman with the time and the space to engage in uninterrupted writing time. During Woolf’s time, women rarely enjoyed these luxuries. They remained elusive to women, and, as a result, their art suffered. But Woolf is concerned with more than just the room itself. She uses the room as a symbol for many larger issues, such as privacy, leisure time, and financial independence, each of which is an essential component of the countless inequalities between men and women. Woolf predicts that until these inequalities are rectified, women will remain second-class citizens and their literary achievements will also be branded as such.