In 1920, women won the right to vote with the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In 1929, English writer Virginia Woolf published her landmark essay, A Room of One’s Own, which ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For many years, I did not read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. I suppose the thesis seemed so familiar, so foundational to feminist thinking, that I never ...

Virginia Woolf famously wrote about the importance of having your own space (and time) to create. She was speaking about women and writing specifically, but in today's era of constant distractions ...

What does a woman need to create art? “A woman must have money and a room of her own,” argued Virginia Woolf in 1929. Her words resonated through continents and generations, landing in 1991, with ...

In 1928, British author Virginia Woolf asked what women who knew what they wanted—to become creative artists—would need to pursue that goal. Her answer became the title of her celebrated 1929 book “A ...

Urmila Seshagiri was researching Virginia Woolf's unpublished autobiography when she uncovered a revised version of disregarded short stories.