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‘I made Virginia Woolf’s idea for women a reality’
7 July 2026
Sarah Hosking has spent more than 30 years making Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own a reality for other women
Sitting in her idyllic garden in Clifford Chambers, just two miles from Stratford-upon-Avon, 85-year-old Sarah Hosking reflects on a journey that has been in the works since she was 20.
After reading Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, she became inspired to make it a reality.
The essay, published in 1929, explores why women have been underrepresented in the arts.
In the book, Woolf imagines a fictional sister of William Shakespeare. Known as Judith, she becomes the embodiment of how society’s patriarchal constraints stifled female genius.
Woolf argued that women needed money and personal space to truly thrive creatively.
But the book was more than just an interesting and thoughtful read for Hosking. It became her goal her life.
This article was originally published on the BBC News website in July 2026.
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