For this reason, most outside experiences were learned through the eyes of a woman's mother, hence Woolf's quote "For we think back through our mothers if we are women". ... Here in the plays of William Shakespeare, poems of Edgar Allen Poe, the stories of Jonathan Swift and/or other predominantly male literary forms, that she encountered would she experience her first taste of true literary art. ...

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