Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives

Reprinted in 2012 from the 1929 original. Not using optical recognition software to reproduce an exact copy of the original edition. Virginia Woolf wrote an extensive essay titled “A Room of One’s Own.” First issued in 1929, the essay is based on the lectures delivered by her at Newnham College and Girton College in October 1928. The text for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled “Women and Fiction,” and thus the essay, are deemed non-fiction. This extensive essay uses a fictional narrator and narrative to investigate women both as writers of and characters in fiction. This article is generally regarded as a feminist text and is noteworthy for its defence of both a literal and figurative space within a literary tradition dominated by women writers.