OBIETTIVO: the aim is to show the difficulties the women found in literature as

writers.

Virginia Woolf was an important modern novelist who wrote many novels about women.
In October 1928 she delivered two conferences at Cambridge on women and the
novel, which became “A Room of One’s Own”, a work in which Virginia Woolf explored
the difficult task of writing especially of women writers.

According to Virginia Woolf’s idea a woman must have money and a room of her own if
she want write fictions.

Professor Travellyan concluded that was impossible to the women have the genius of
Shakespeare and that they cannot write his plays.

Virginia Woolf imagines “what would have happened had Shakespeare had a
wonderfully gifted sister called Judith.

Shakespeare went, very probably, to the grammar school, where he may have learnt
Latin and the elements of grammar and logic. He had a taste for the theatre
becoming very soon an actor. Meanwhile his gifted sister remained at home. She was
adventurous and imaginative, but she was not sent to school. She had no chance of
learning grammar and logic. She read a few of pages of her brother’s perhaps.
Perhaps she scribbled some pages up in an apple loft on the sly but was careful to
hide them or set fire to them. Like her brother she had a taste for the theatre. But
soon she was betrothed. She cried out that marriage was hateful to her, and for that
she was severely beaten by her father. Yet her genius was for fiction, then she killed
herself winter’s night”.

“A Room of One’s Own” is simply the metaphor of a large exclusion: the women’s
exclusion from the history.

Virginia Woolf tells the story of an absence rather than a presence. She claims for
women the need for an area just for them in which creativity can find its voice.
BIBLIOGRAFIA:

Virginia Woolf, “Una stanza tutta per sé ”, Enaudi.