pVirginia Woolf made her name as a leading member of the experimental writers known as the amp39Bloomsbury Groupamp39. Such was her reputation in 1928 she was asked to lecture on amp39Women and Fictionamp39 at Cambridge Universityamp39s only two female colleges Newnham and Girton. The result was a penetrating and passionate analysis in which Woolf turns a jaundiced eye on allmale literary criticisms castigates those who pretend great art is not dependent on material things and laments the financial poverty of her sex as the major impediment to literary success. She concludes that an aspiring female writer needs ampquotfive hundred a year and a room with a lock on the door if you are to write fiction or poetry.ampquot A amp39Room Of Oneamp39s Ownamp39 remains justly famous as a feminist classic widely regarded as the single most important work of feminist literary criticism to date.p