A Room of One’s Own

Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, is an essay that shows why women, except a few exceptions, have long been excluded from litterature: lack of money, lack of a room of one’s own, lack of recognition in a patriarchal society, were terrible obstacles. Virginia Woolf suggests that women should earn money and have a room of their own in order to become psychically androgynous, in other words, in order to unite the feminine and the masculine within themselves. The access to intellectual freedom and the liberation from complaint, will allow them to abandon self-expression, to access poetic writing and to have their place in the history of literature.