“I thought of…the shut doors of the library; and I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in; and, thinking of the safety and prosperity of the one sex and of the poverty and insecurity of the other and of the effect of tradition and of the lack of tradition upon the mind of the writer, I thought at last that it was time to roll up the crumpled skin of the day…and cast it into the hedge.” (Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, Ch. 1, 27-28)
Critically examine the measures women take to gain access to spaces they have been denied. What do they do with the knowledge they have gained in those spaces?