The commentary that makes up A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf is spoken by a narrator in motion. She is first depicted wandering outdoors on the grounds of a college campus. Soon after, he makes his way inside, into various rooms and classrooms belonging to two of the many colleges that readers can assume make up this university. Next, she is pictured visiting the British Museum in the heart of London. He concludes the book located in his home in London. This narrator's mobility highlights the importance of setting in the novel. Setting, the context within which actions and people are placed in literary works, is an integral means through which authors communicate their ideas. Elements of setting include historical time, location and place, general environment or social milieu. The novel's first major setting is the grounds of a fictitious university which the author calls "Oxbridge". As the name of this venue makes clear, the reader is supposed to call to mind the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, two of the oldest universities in England. Both were founded in the early 13th century and both were centers of learning even before they were officially established as universities. Each is made up of numerous colleges with different names. While waiting for and keeping her two Oxbridge appointments, the narrator (who will henceforth be called Mary Beton) does various things and various things happen to her. She sits by the river that runs through campus thinking about a future lecture she is to give on the topic of women and fiction, walks around (still thinking) and is told to stay on the paths and keep off the turf, " tries to enter a library b... middle of paper ......he stopped; and they got into the taxi and then the taxi slipped away as if it had been dragged elsewhere by the reader, opening the final chapter of the book, steps out for a moment from the precincts of ancient and ancient institutions and from the pages of books. He is invited to contemplate, for a moment, the contemporary, everyday and real world, full of car and pedestrian traffic. factories and businesses and what this rapidly evolving dynamic world promises is what the author desires, which is progress, just as rivers inevitably reach the sea taxi, Woolf points to a future in which women and men are on equal footing, meeting halfway and traveling together in one direction. mutual harmony.