In Virginia Woolf's, A Room Of One's Own Woolf argues, the reasoning behind the struggle of aspiring women writers prior to the twentieth century was greatly due to the lack of build up of women in the literary arts thus the lack of women's tradition. ... In Woolf's essay, she states: "For we think back through our mothers if we are women". ... Wordsworth, who was born to a wealthy family and who's father was a very prominent lawyer, had the luxury of studying his craft at university, with a peer group that included such contemporaries as Robert Southey and Samu...

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