<p>A Room of One's Ownis an extended essay based on two lectures that Virginia Woolf delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at the University of Cambridge, in 1928. In this work, Woolf explores the societal and material conditions required for women to write and produce literature. The central thesis of A Room of One's Own is encapsulated in Virginia Woolf's assertion that "a woman must have mone...