Visible head of the Bloomsbury Group ―one of the most brilliant generations of intellectuals in British culture― and a novelist with an almost mythical aura, Virginia Woolf was also a master of the essay. The phrase that titles this book, "a woman must have money and a room of her own to dedicate herself to literature," sparked great controversy in its time and has been misinterpreted to exhaustion. Where some saw elitism, Woolf wanted to reclaim the figure of the empowered woman through her writings and economic independence, as the first step toward full realization. Woolf thus became the reference author of the second wave of feminism, offering us an intense and moving reading that has become a contemporary classic.

Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) was one of the central figures of 20th-century literary modernism. Daughter of the critic and historian Leslie Stephen, she grew up in a deeply intellectual environment that shaped her education from a very young age. She soon became one of the most influential voices of the so-called Bloomsbury Group, a decisive circle in the British cultural renewal, where she developed her interest in feminism, aesthetic experimentation, and new ways of narrating inner experience.

During the 1920s, she founded the publishing house Hogarth Press together with Leonard Woolf, through which she promoted both her own work and that of key authors of her time. Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse transformed contemporary narrative through their exploration of consciousness and subjective time. In 1941, after several depressive episodes worsened by the context of World War II in the United Kingdom, she took her own life. Her work remains an essential reference in modern literature.