A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a British modernist novelist and essayist whose experimental works - 'Mrs Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse,' and 'Orlando' - revolutionized narrative technique through stream of consciousness and lyrical prose. Her essay 'A Room of One's Own' remains a foundational text of feminist literary criticism.
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