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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. A Room of One�s Own, among Virginia Woolf�s best- known works, is an extended essay, based on two lectures that she delivered in October 1928 at Newnham College and Girton College, women�s constituent colleges at the University of Cambridge. First published in September 1929 as a book, this seminal feminist text makes a case for a literal and figurative space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by men. Woolf feels strongly that the argument that women produce inferior works of literature must be analysed against the backdrop of their existence and circumstances�unlike men, historically and socially, women are denied the time, space and economic independence to produce artistic and creative works. Nearly a century after the publication of A Room of One�s Own, Virginia Woolf�s observation still seems to ring true.