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In the novel, A Room Of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf it seems implausible that one could miss the theme behind her writing. Even just by reading the title, it is self- explanatory. In order for a woman to write fiction she must have money, and a room of one's own. Woolf stresses this throughout the novel. She directly says "Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always …

…themselves, they need certain things, material things. Women cannot truly write fiction without money and a room. However materialistic it may sound it was true. Had the past female poet and authors had money and rooms of their own to lock themselves and their thoughts in. Then perhaps their work would have been taken more seriously. Perhaps with a room of one's own a new intelligence and new levels of your work are brought out.