Virginia Woolf & Doris Lessing

Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. 
A Room of One's Own
The essay is generally seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.

"a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction"

"In the first place, to have a room of her own..was out of the question, unless her parents were exceptionally rich or very noble"

                           
               The echo from Woolf's A Room of One's Own

                                                                                          -----Room Nineteen by Doris Lessing 

It is a story about a middle aged woman who has been from happiness to madness in her marriage, eventually gone to devastate. In 1960's, the society still restrains women to limit their living space. The main character Susan was happy with her husband and 4 kids in their family. However, they both start to doubt the real meaning of life. Since the husband has a affair, Susan changes from "it still under the control" to be irritable of her life. She starts to feel the emptiness and laking of freedom in her marriage. She wearies of the role of sustainer and comforter. The question of her decision of marriage is intelligent and fulfillment strikes her inner feeling. She finds out her identity through the self-discovery. Finally, she refuses to regress to the old self and to abdicate self-knowledge and self role, thus she remains the true to the authentic self. However, she choose to kill herself, which claims a means of resisting of crushing, culturally enforced image of woman and of posting a new politics of identity. The story denounces the devastating consequences of the restrictions to women in that era.