Una habitación propia

What would have happened if Shakespeare had had a sister with the same talent for writing? Probably, that he would continue to be a beacon of universal letters and she, condemned to anonymity, would have committed suicide. This is what Virginia Woolf said to the university students who in 1928 attended her lectures on women and literature. And she said it, precisely, also invoking Jane Austen or the Brontës, to encourage them not to let themselves be crushed by the weight of an eminently masculine story. "A room of one's own" continues to be a bedside book today because it is an invitation to creation free of prejudices and obstacles, and a call for women to meet with writing (and with reality) so that they can finally occupy the place they they have always deserved. And because it is also a brilliant, funny and scathing text that never runs out on rereading and that reflects the greatness of its author: one of the greatest writers in history.