It’s the birthday of Virginia Woolf, born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London in 1882.

Her books include: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.

In A Room of One’s Own (1929) (which was based on lectures she gave at the women’s colleges of Cambridge) she wrote:

“a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction… when I ask you to earn money and have a room of your own, I am asking you to live in the presence of reality, an invigorating life.”