A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia 
Woolf. First published in 1929 the essay was based on a 
series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and 
Girton College two women's colleges at Cambridge 
University in October 1928. The essay is generally seen as a feminist text and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary 
tradition dominated by patriarchy.