‘A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction’ says Virginia Woolf, as part of her talk given to two female colleges at the University of Cambridge in 1928. Rebecca Vaughan is Woolf, delivering a TED-talk long before they were a thing, about the challenges facing women in society – particularly creative and intellectual women, who legally still needed a man for many things now independent of gender.

Vaughan delivers an incredible hour, never missing a step as she inhabits Virginia and gives us the context and personal philosophy of how the world could work. It’s a dense treatise, but rarely does it do anything but hold the attention, discussing her personal experiences of being told that as a woman, she was not permitted to go into the library, and the differences between the lunches at indulgent male colleges compared to those much plainer held at female establishments.