January 25, 1882

Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 to March 28, 1941) used the idea of a room as a pointer to the occupant. We note in her comment in Jacob's Room (1922) a feline thread. There she wrote: "Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say." The cat as a seemingly irrelevant detail functions to point out the edge of living change in some of her work. 

That edge is a topic that deserves greater development. Such an essay might start with remembering that she got a cat with the first money she received for writing.