“Thus, I concluded, shutting Mr. Oscar Browning’s life and pushing
away the rest, it is fairly evident that even in the nineteenth century a
woman was not encouraged to be an artist. On the contrary, she was
snubbed, slapped, lectured and exhorted. Her mind must have been
strained and her vitality lowered by the need of opposing this, of
disproving that.”
(Virginia Woolf, “In Search of a Room of One’s Own” 528-9)
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