Writer · 1882 – 1941
Virginia Woolf
Little-Known Facts
- She and her husband ran the Hogarth Press, which published her work and that of others.
- Her famous line — that a woman needs 'money and a room of her own' to write — became a feminist rallying cry.
Myths & Misconceptions
What is A Room of One's Own's main argument?
Woolf argued that women had been denied great literary achievement not by lack of talent but by lack of money, education and independence — 'a room of one's own'.