"If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as Professor Trevelyan points out [in his History of England], she was locked up, beaten and flung about the room."
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Virginia Woolf in: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf, Wordsworth Editions, 2007, p. 590
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