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Virginia Woolf

Britain · 1882–1941

Woolf’s fiction experimented with the representation of thought, memory and everyday experience. In A Room of One’s Own, she examined the material conditions that allow someone to write: money, education, privacy and time.

Her argument moves beyond talent alone. It asks how institutions and inherited inequalities decide whose work is produced, preserved and taken seriously.

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”

A Room of One’s Own (1929), chapter 1.