A Room of One's Own Outline

In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf provides evidence to show how money, and the lack of it, restricts women and their potentials, just as money, and the lack of it, suppresses the capa-bilities of immigrants to the United States.

I will show this by describing women’s conditions from a feminist and Marxist viewpoint, and relate these issues to the plight of the immigrants.

The inadequate dinner of the scholars from the women’s college of Fernham prevents them from having meaningful conversations.

Fernham is on the verge of economic collapse while the men’s colleges have many donations.

They would be no Mary Seton if her mother would have sought money.

Law and custom prevent women from owning property, undoubtedly from lack of money.

Money was more important than the right to vote because it produces tangible results instantly.

The narrator no longer has to work jobs anymore to support herself now that she has financial security.

Women jobs, like raising children, are not deemed as important as men jobs, like coal mining, so men receive more money.

Women are financially bound to their husbands.

“Intellectual freedom depends on material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time.” That is why women write novels.

Gaining a room of one’s own can simply mean to close a door and lock it, but gaining money (500 pounds) is hard work.

Stock market crash happened at same time of publishing: symbolic