Possibly Woolf's most readable and entertaining book, A Room of One's Own was based on papers delivered at Newnham and Girton Colleges. Never losing sight of her undergraduate audience, Woolf provides a brief history of women's writing in English, a scathing account of the subtle and not so subtle ways in which women have been discouraged from writing, and a recommendation for how to change matters: "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.