The first task a woman has to do on her journey to economic independence and social liberation is to kill the Angel in the House: that ghost that imposes on her to be only a devoted wife and mother? that imposes on her to suppress her own needs and desires by obeying patriarchal conventionality. On January 21, 1931, Virginia Woolf delivers an inspired speech to women in London, showing them how to conquer "a room of their own" on their own terms.