Clueless

One really funny thing I found in the biography of Elizabeth von Arnim is that she wrote a scathing review of Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own. Von Arnim found ridiculous Woolf’s belief that a woman needed to have a room of her own to be able to write. A true writer can do easily without a separate room, von Arnim wrote from the 16-bedroom chalet with a separate writing retreat that she occupied by herself. Plus, the servants, of course.