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.

“Own room”-the famous essay based on the 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 face the opinion all the time that writer's work is Unworthy activity for a woman.

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.