A Room of One's Own is an extraordinary, beautifully written, poetic little book. Woolf imagines for us, in a stream of consciousness, two days in which she wanders around Oxbridge and the British Museum, and browses through everything ever written about or by women. Why was there no female Shakespeare, she ponders? She imagines what life would have been like for a brilliant sister of Shakespeare - and finds the woman killing herself in her prime.