A Room of One's Own Day
January 25 · Level 1 · #2161 of 2238
This day celebrates Virginia Woolf's essay A Room of One's Own and its idea that everyone needs private space for thinking and creating. It falls on 25 January, the writer's birthday.
How it is celebrated: readers pick the essay up again, book clubs discuss it, and many people carve out a quiet hour in a corner of their own to write, read or simply daydream.
Published in 1929, the essay grew out of lectures Woolf gave at two women's colleges in Cambridge. Her famous argument is that a woman needs money and a room of her own with a lock on the door if she is to write fiction.