Book review

By elaborating the notion , " a woman must have money and a room of her own", Virginia Woolf tried to untie the complications related to ' women and fiction' to an extent. At first, through Mary Beton, ( Woolf's fictional character ) who is at Oxbridge ( fictional university) Woolf describes her point of view. Readers are able to get into the period in which ladies were not even admitted to libraries. It is very interesting to read Mary's Judith Shakespeare, who had every talent that Shakespeare had but none his opportunities and ended up pregnant. The essay figures out several women writers . For example,Aphra Ben is the first woman to make money by writing even in her hardship. Woolf elegantly portrays that women's lack of long tradition and their search to figure out a way to write is like finding clothes that fit your body from a mass. It is surprising that each page of Woolf's essay contains some reference to women in a way or other. A Room of One's Own is a thought provoking essay, a hard look at how to be a woman writer in a man's world. Woolf never attempted to categorise whether men or women are good at writing but she yields that women should be able to write what they wish. Inorder to write they must acquire material things which ensures intellectual freedom. A writer must be neutral in mind (gender) inorder to produce a good work which wins the test of time.