Wuthering Heights and A Room of One's Own From the moment Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights in 1847 to the moment Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One's Own in 1929, the more 80 This one-year period brought enormous changes to literature and female authors. In the early Victorian era, when women writers were not accepted as legitimate, Emily Bronte found it necessary to write her novel under the name "Mr. Ellis Bell" according to an 1848 newspaper review (WH 301). According to The Longman Anthology of British Literature, "Women had little opportunity for higher education or satisfying work" (1794) and "the ideal Victorian woman was to be domestic and pure, selflessly motivated by the desire to serve others..." ( 1794). The Bronte sisters participated in many of the typical tasks of the Victorian age such as taking on housekeeper duties and teaching positions (Bradbury p. 106). However, the Victorian era must have dictated the pseudonyms that the Bronte sisters found it necessary to use. 80 years later, Virginia Woolf no longer had to hide behind a male pseudonym. She is considered "an important author, of any genre" (Longman, p. 2445). Not only was Woolf accepted as a female author, but the topics she wrote about would never have been touched on in the Bronte sisters' time. In her career, Woolf wrote on topics such as "sexual politics, society and war" (Longman p. 2445) and was instrumental in creating and running the Hogarth Press for years (2447). In “A Room of One's Own,” Woolf candidly examines the role of women in literature and literature about women and concludes that a woman needs “money and a room of her own” to write fiction (2457). In this piece she examines the role of women in history with much disdain, especially regarding the difficulty in raising funds to build a women's college. "What had our mothers done then to not have wealth to leave us? Powder their noses? Look at shop windows?" (Longmann, 2466). Woolf was dissatisfied with the fact that women were left behind in the literary world and did much to change this by promoting educational opportunities for women. "The feeling of having been deliberately excluded from education by virtue of her sex was to influence all of Woolf's writing and thinking" (2446).