Both Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Virginia Woolf published works relating to the physical and mental privacy that women need. A Room of One's Own, clearly establishes a connection between female creativity and physical privacy. Interestingly, Woolf states in her essay that “Without a private room, a woman cannot effectively engage in the mental task of writing.” (Wolf 52). Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper presents a similar argument about mental privacy, depicting a protagonist whose mental functioning has been disabled by a violent male character, to the point of losing her sanity. Austen's connection between privacy and female creativity is not as simple as Woolf makes in her writings. Austen's belief in mental privacy is weak compared to Gilman's depiction of madness. Returning to the novel, despite the independence that Charlotte maintains by separating her room from her husband's, her main goal in ensuring her privacy is only a little emotional. As Woolf points out in A Room of One's Own, a woman needs a quiet or even soundproof room for her physical privacy to be productive.