A Room of One’s Own

A Room of One’s Own is an extended essay, first published on the 24th of October, 1929, based on a series of lectures delivered by Virginia Woolf, at Newnham College and Girton College — two women’s colleges at Cambridge University, in October 1928.
Woolf offered her audience and all the generations that will follow a provocative and stimulating reflection on the condition of women and the social alienation to which they have been subject, since Antiquity, in a world dominated by men, referring to the material and social conditions for a woman to be able, if she so desires, to write and create, and exploring the effects of poverty or sexual constraint on female creativity.
A Room of One’s Own is considered one of the most important texts of the 20th century, as it signs a founding moment in modern feminism, which returns to the political sphere the ancient and fair struggle of equality.