In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf discusses the need of five-hundred pounds and a private room in order that one may be a good writer. She notes that these two necessities are largely inaccessible to women, firstly because men usually were in charge of the finances of a family, and extra money would be required for an effective writer so that she would not be bothered by the fear of running out of funds, and, secondly, because women usually carried the responsibility of raising the children, which often provides many distractions and interruptions. Woolf does, however, add that there have been successful female writers, though very few, from her time, but that they were either wealthy, or had no children to care for, so they had the time to write without interruptions. She also presents the argument that for women who do have the luxury of time and money with which to write, the novel form is much more practical because it allows a woman to leave her writing and come back later, perhaps to care for her children, while poetry demands to be written at once. Finally, and possibly the most importantly, it was not common for women to receive the kind of education that would have allowed them to actually articulate their ideas, even though they may have been just as talented as male writers and poets. The reader gets a look at this, very explicitly, through one of Woolf’s characters, Judith Shakespeare, William Shakespeare’s fictional twin sister, who was equally talented, but inopportune to get the necessary education that would have made it possible for her to become an established writer like her brother, and, who eventually takes her own life as a result.