This story grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to giveat Girton College Cambridge in 1928. It ranges over Jane Austen and CharlotteBronte... » 

This story grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to giveat Girton College Cambridge in 1928. It ranges over Jane Austen and CharlotteBronte the silent fate of Shakespeares gifted and imaginary sister and overthe effects of poverty and chastity on female creativity.A ROOM OF ONES OWN grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront and why neither of them could have written War and Peace over the silent fate of Shakespeares gifted and imaginary sister over the effects of poverty and chastity on female creativity she gives us one of the greatest feminist polemics of the century. A ROOM OF ONES OWN grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bront and why neither of them could have written War and Peace over the silent fate of Shakespeares gifted and imaginary sister over the effects of poverty and chastity on female creativity she gives us one of the greatest feminist polemics of the century. «