relationship between the position of women in society and their ability to express themselves in fiction. Fiction may come from within, but it is also dependent on certain modes of thought, on ways of dealing with and relating to one's environment, and on how one views oneself in relation to the rest of society. Woolf states that a woman will not be able to write fiction unless she has money and a room of her own (Woolf, A Room of One's Own 4). There is a degree of independence of spirit in those who achieve these two external freedoms.
In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf was delivering a series of lectures at Newnham and Girton on the subject of women and fiction, and she was speculating on the nature of the relationship between women writers and the fiction they produced and between these women and their society. She imagines herself in different guises and ponders the essential question of why there are so few women writers, and why in each period in history there were fewer women able to express themselves as compare to
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