Based on the underlined words in the text, what
inference can be made about the author’s perspective?
Albel
Had she [Judith Shakespeare] survived, whatever she
had written would have been twisted and deformed,
issuing from a strained and morbid imagination. And
undoubtedly, I thought, looking at the shelf where there
are no plays by women, her work would have gone
unsigned. That refuge she would have sought certainly. It
was the relic of the sense of chastity that dictated
anonymity to women even so late as the nineteenth
century. Currer Bell, George Eliot, George Sand, all the
victims of inner strife as their writings prove, sought
ineffectively to veil themselves by using the name of a
man.
-A Room of one’s own,
Virginia Woolf
O Female authors are reserved, so they prefer to
remain anonymous.
O Society discriminates against women, so female
writers often hide their identity.
Judith Shakespeare did not face the same
challenges as other women of her era.
O Female authors are just as talented as male
authors, and they get equal recognition.
Done