ABSTRACT
Ms. Virginia Woolf argues magnificently for a woman's need to have a room of her own and some money to go with it. When Virginia Woolf addressed the Art Society at Girton in October 1928, she know that her essay 'A Room of One's Own' would become one of the most famous feminist essays. She would be pleased to know that more women are taking out their pens to embrace their creativity with abandon, and saddened that they still doubt their abilities and their right to write. Many of the women writers who write about their rooms have revisited rooms of pleasure, rooms of love, and rooms with faint smells of just-baked bread, steaming hot cups of cocoa, and fresh cookies from childhood. Some women remember rooms filled with the musty odors of another time and place. Other women write about rooms where they felt safe and protected.
