A "Room of One's Own" is an extended essay written by Virginia Woolf that tries to depict women's status over time regarding literature.
When she talks about education, she cites Profesor Trevelyan as mentioning that "women in literature, imaginatively, of the highest importance. However, they are completely insignificant and absent from history". This phrase resumes the secondary role that women played part in throughout the history of literature in the 17th century.
