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When A Room Of One's Own Sparknotes

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Virginia Woolf, one of the most gifted writers of this century had often wondered why men had always had power, influence, wealth, and fame, while women had nothing but children. She reasoned that there would be female Shakespeare in the future provided women found the first two keys to freedom: independent incomes and rooms of their own. (The second key was a metaphor for women having access to their own private space.) When A Room of One's Own was first published it was considered both radical and revolutionary. Most people--including many women--did not talk about or even think about women's liberation and certainly no one was writing about it, let alone as persuasively as Virginia Woolf. Her essay became a classic, a landmark in the movement
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