In her novel, A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf utilizes the meals at Oxbridge and Fernham as a strategy to support her thesis that “women must have money and a room of her own in order to write.” (viii) The Oxbridge college luncheon is a representation of the writing of men through the descriptions of “the sharp and the sweet” tastes of the sauces on the partridges and the “more profound, subterranean glow” of the wine. (11) These depictions emphasize the depth and texture that books written by men possess. In stark contrast to the luncheon, the dinner at the Fernham college with its “plain [and transparent] gravy soup” and dry biscuits with water suggest that books written by women are seemingly boring and artless. The food available at
