A Room of One's Own

500 pounds a year and A Room of One's Own is the main thing a woman needs for creativity, according to Virginia Woolf.
."A Room of One's Own" is a famous essay based on lectures Woolf delivered at Newnham College and... Girton College - two women's colleges of Cambridge University - in October 1928. In it, she addresses all women engaged in literature and recalls her great predecessors - Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot - who were forced to write in a common living room, hide manuscripts out of sight, and constantly face the opinion that writing is an unworthy pursuit for a woman.
.The essay, despite its journalistic format, does not lose the beauty and precision of style characteristic of Virginia Woolf's work, and is full of subtle humor and self-irony.