October 24

In literary history

• 1929Virginia Woolf published A Room of One's Own, expanding lectures she had given at Cambridge the previous year. Its central argument, that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction, has never needed updating.

Writers born on October 24

• Fernando Vallejo (1942)

The Daily Canon for October 24

Lysistrata by Aristophanes (-411).