Grimke drew and compared the legal status of slaves to that of contemporary women. ... Furthermore, men who had the advantage of education, contemporary male peer groups and/or male literary forefathers, they could learn and work from, only served to reinforce the exclusively male dominated medium that produced the literary icons of the time One can see that Woolf's argument substantiated by studying the inequalities in educational, financial and social background by comparing herself with another nineteenth century writer, William Wordsworth. ... In order for women to shed their p...

• Word Count: 1471
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate