A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN ; REVIEW 

Virginia woolf (1882-1941) was a English author, essayist, publisher ,and writer of short stories. and she was a central figure feminist criticism .her most famous works include the novels mrs Dalloway , to the light house, and orlando .

Her book length essay A room of ones own published in 1929 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 men.her famous quote " a woman  must have  and a room of her own if she is to write fiction". The title of the essay comes from Woolf's conception that, "a woman must have and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" ^.Woolf notes that women have been kept from writing because of their relative poverty, and  freedom will bring women the freedom to write. through this work she reveals that true nature of woman and  true nature of fiction.the nerrater sits on the banks of river at oxbridge pondering the question of woman and fiction. she   represents metaphorically in terms of fishing.'thought ...had let its line down in to the stream" of mind ,where it drifts in the current and waits for the tug of an idea. she scurries back to her proper place on her gravel path remarking that while" no very great harm " had been done, she had lost her "little fish"of  an idea.The essay examines whether women were capable of producing, and in fact free to produce work of the quality of  shakes pears addressing the limitations that past and present women writers facen delivering the lectures outlined in the essay, Woolf is speaking to women who have the opportunity to learn in a formal, communal setting. Woolf lets her audience know the importance of their education at the same time warning them of the precariousness of their position in society.

one part , Woolf  explained a fictional character, Judith, "Shakespeare's sister," to potrays that a woman with Shakespeare's gifts would have been denied the same opportunities to develop them because of the doors that were closed to women. Like Woolf, who stayed at home while her brothers went off to school, Judith stays at home while William goes off to school. Judith is trapped in the home: "She was as adventurous, as imaginatives. But she was not sent to school. Woolf's prose holds all the hopes of Judith Shakespeare against her brother's hopes in the first sentence, then abruptly curtails Judith's chances of fulfilling her promise with "but." While William learns, Judith is chastised by her parents should she happen to pick up a book, as she is inevitably abandoning some household chore to which she could be attending. Judith is betrothed, and when she does not want to marry, she is beaten and then shamed into marriage by her father. While Shakespeare establishes himself, Judith is trapped by the confines of the expectations of women. Judith kills herself, and her genius goes unexpressed, while Shakespeare lives on and establishes his legacy.

In the essay, Woolf  again potrays  a historical account of women writers. Woolf examines the careers of several female authors, including Aphra behn , Jane austen, the bronte sisters,  Goerge  eliot In addition to female authors, Harrison is presented in the essay only by her initials separated by long dashes, and Woolf first introduces Harrison as "the famous scholar^.

 The essay quotes  Oscar browning  through the words of his  biographer H.E wortham the impression left on his mind, after looking over any set of examination papers, was that the best woman was intellectually the inferior of the worst man.'In addition to these mentions, Woolf subtly refers to several of the most prominent intellectuals of the time, and her hybrid name from the university of oxford and the university of cambridge- oxford has become a well-known term, although she was not the first to use it.The narrator of the work is at one point identified as  mary beaton  and mary setonor Mary Carmichael", alluding to the sixteenth century ballad mary hamilton  In referencing the tale of a woman about to be hanged for existing outside of marriage and rejecting motherhood, the narrator identifies women writers such as herself as outsiders who exist in a potentially dangerous space. It is important to note that Woolf's heroine, Judith Shakespeare, dies by her own hand, after she becomes pregnant with the child of an actor. Like the woman in the Four Marys, she is pregnant and trapped in a life imposed on her. Woolf sees Judith Shakespeare, Mary Beaton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael, as powerless, impoverished women everywhere as threatened by the spectre of death.