Own room. Wolf V.

500 pounds a year and her own room is the main thing that a woman needs for creativity, according to Virginia Wolf.

“Her own room” The famous essay based on lectures that Wolf read in 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 all the time to deal with the opinion that writer's work - Unworthy activity for a woman. The essay, 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.