A Room of One’s Own

But, you might say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction – what has that got to do with a room of one’s own? I will try to explain … – a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction … I have just finished…

… for books have a way of influencing each other …

In “A Room of One’s Own” Virginia Woolf is saying: Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy  … For books have a way of influencing each other. All of Woolf’s writing (according to Hermione Lee) goes in for this mixing and merging of genres: fiction, history, biography,…