ASSESSED ESSAY: What is Virginia Woolf arguing in A Room of One's Own? How does the way she writes help to develop that argument?

The starting point of the writing of A Room Of Ones' Own was a conference that the author Virginia Woolf had to give in May 1928 about Woman and Fiction at Newnham in front of the Arts Society. The conclusion is that " a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" and the whole book is the explanation of how V. Woolf came to that conclusion. Indeed the scheme of thought that led to that conclusion makes illusion to many other subjects about women and the society they have been living in since the beginning of time until the time at which V. Woolf wrote. First the essay will look at those economics, sociological, historical and cultural allusions made for explaining this opinion of a need of a room of a one's own for a woman and secondly, it will focus on the narration V. Woolf chose to convey her theory.

According to Woolf, one of the many problems that women have been facing for centuries to write creatively is first the access to knowledge. In the first chapter, the narrator is denied the access to library in the fictive university of Oxbridge which is a fusion of the real universities of Cambridge and Oxford because she is a woman. Indeed a man tells that" ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction". Here there is the first obstacle that women have to handle, they are denied the access to the enormous source of knowledge that the library represents and therefore they cannot fully develop their intellectual. Women are kept to a lower standard of education and therefore, they cannot fully develop themselves in comparison with the men and it infuriated the narrator who "descended the steps in anger". Then, the