{"id":91027,"date":"2018-06-09T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-use-what-is-available-with-enjoyment-padded-out-with-hard-work\/"},"modified":"2018-06-09T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T06:05:09","slug":"i-use-what-is-available-with-enjoyment-padded-out-with-hard-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/i-use-what-is-available-with-enjoyment-padded-out-with-hard-work\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I use what is available with enjoyment, padded out with hard work\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCharity founder on how she made Virginia Woolf\u2019s idea that writers need \u2018a room of one\u2019s own\u2019 a realityI am guided by the mantra in Virginia Woolf\u2019s 1929 essay A Room of One\u2019s Own in which she said that a woman needs \u00a3500 a year and a room of her own if she is to write. Twenty years ago I set up a charity with \u00a35 to allow older women writers a period of seclusion in a country cottage, plus an allowance of \u00a31,000 a month. It flourishes and shows that the most meagre resources can bear dividends.My finances have always been modest and, in my retirement, I live on \u00a319,000 a year. But I have three advantages: I was a wartime child and brought up by inventive parents so intense thrift did not mean you had to be miserable; I am scrupulously well-organised; and I own my own home. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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