Woolf's 'A room of one's own' presents the narrator as sitting on the banks of a river at "Oxbridge" (a fictional university meant to suggest Oxford and Cambridge) pondering the question of women and fiction. She represents her musings metaphorically in terms of fishing: "thought... had let its line down into the stream" of the mind, where it drifts in the current and waits for the tug of an idea. Who does not love fishing? As soon as she gets a bite, however, she is interrupted by the approach of the Beadle, a university security guard who enforces the rule by which women are not allowed to walk onto the grass. She scurries back to her proper place on the gravel path, remarking that while "no very great harm" had been done, she had lost her "little fish" of an idea. In any case, none of these explanatory factors took place at the window sill of any New England 1800's library as shown above. bye.
win·dow·sill ˈwindōˌsil/
noun
noun: window sill; noun: window-sill
- a ledge or sill forming the bottom part of a photographed window used to spend time writing.
