A Room of One's Own is a text of means and not ends, for it is the process of reading and re-reading this work that elucidates Woolf's theories. It is not the scenarios she depicts but the play between content and form that evokes her ideas concerning the female literary tradition.

A web motif runs throughout A Room of One's Own, similar to the motif that runs throughout the work of these poets and my own hypertext project. Woolf's text "ravels the crossed threads of history and fiction. It ravels--which is to say it both untangles, makes something plain or clear, and entangles, or confuses, something" (Kamuf,185). Woolf uses fiction to function as fact in order to create a history for women, thus truth and hypothesis are meshed (entangled as in a web). She says this must be done when history is the property of men. We must fill in the blanks with fiction in order to give women a side to the story.

It is a story that Irish women are trying to present. The history and emotions of these women have not been told. The accounts of Irish living and struggles have been one-sided for so long and a new voice demands to be heard. Stories/words may come forth from individuals but it is the overall voice, the female voice, that cries out and demands attention. According to Woolf, "masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice" (65).