A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf's feminist call to arms
- Written by Jessica Gildersleeve, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
A young Virginia Woolf photographed in 1902.Wikimedia CommonsI sit at my kitchen table to write this essay, as hundreds of thousands of women have done before me. It is not my own room, but such things are still a luxury for most women today. The table will do. I am fortunate I can make a living “by my wits,” as Virginia Woolf puts it...





