A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in 1929. Divided into six chapters, the work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered in October 1928 at two women's college
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Newnham College, Cambridge
Girton College, Cambridge
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
Sackville-West around 1915, from The Life of V. Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning
Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina Sackville-West, Baroness Sackville. Vita's mother, circa 1885
Vita Sackville-West in 1913