Own room

500 pounds a year and her own room is the main thing that a woman needs for creativity, according to Virginia Wolf.
“Own room”-the famous essay based on the lectures that Wolf read at the Newnham College and Gerton College-two women"s colleges of the University of Cambridge-in October 1928. In it, she turns to all women engaged in literature, and recalls her great predecessors - Jane Osten, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot - forced to write in the common living room, hide the manuscripts away from prying eyes and face the opinion all the time, that writing work - that writing work - Unworthy activity for a woman.
Essays, despite the journalistic format, does not lose the beauty and accuracy of the syllable inherent in the work of Virginia Wolf, and is full of subtle humor and self -irony