![]() She made up stories using neighbors and other elements around her. As a child, Ms Woolf sat on the plush green sofa in the drawing room of her childhood home in St Ives, Cornwall, writing. ![]() Virginia Woolf is one of several female authors who wrote about home or experienced its unique complexity. Still, it can mean more, like the absence of a burden to perform my gender in any and every way, including one that consumes my precious-writing time. ![]() For me, Woolf’s meaning of the word “room” could extend to seeking jobs that provide financial freedom, writing other kinds of profitable stories and taking on ‘serious’ jobs - didn’t Buchi Emecheta say that living entirely off writing is a precarious existence? Room, for me, is my space, defined by books on bookshelves, photos plastered across the wall, on Mixtiles, and my Swiss cheese plants clustered in corners. In Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own”, she says a woman must have money and a room of one’s own if she is to write fiction. ![]()
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