TY - BOOK AU - Woolf, Virginia TI - A room of one's own: SN - 978-81-7599-415-7 U1 - 824.912 23 PY - 1929/// CY - New Delhi PB - Fingerprint classics N1 - Virginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own is a landmark of twentieth-century feminist thought. It explores the history of women in literature through an unconventional and highly provocative investigation of the social and material conditions required for the writing of literature. These conditions—leisure time, privacy, and financial independence— underwrite all literary production, but they are particularly relevant to understanding the situation of women in the literary tradition because women, historically, have been uniformly deprived of those basic prerequisites ER -