This novel reflects the themes present in its author's essay A Room of One's Own. The protagonist is first encountered in the attic of his family's mansion, playing piñata with the desiccated head of 
This novel reflects the themes present in its author's essay A Room of One's Own. The protagonist is first encountered in the attic of his family's mansion, playing piñata with the desiccated head of a Moor. He goes on to live through the reign of Elizabeth I, the freezing of the river Thames, and a supernatural sex-change into a poet based on Victoria Sackville-West. FTP, name this title character of a Virginia Woolf novel, who finishes the book as a she.
This novel reflects the themes present in its author's essay A Room of One's Own.