Answer:
B. Why did women not write poetry during the Elizabethan Age?
Explanation:
Virginia Woolf's "A Room Of One's Own" deals with the issue of women being denied or forced away from the basic rights such as education and other facilities unlike the men. And by taking an example of a fictional "Judith, Shakespeare's wonderfully gifted sister", she presents a case where women may have the chance to be as great as the man himself but without the equal opportunities, are left 'inferior' to men.
In this essay, Woolf asks the simple yet important question of why women couldn't write poetry. And in an answer to her own question, she states that had women been allowed the same facilities of education and time like the men, then there is a sure way that women will produce the same level of works in literature like the men. Judith, for instance, can also become a great writer, "extraordinarily gifted" like her brother William Shakespeare if only she had been educated in "grammar and logic". But she was made to do the house-works "and not moon about with books and papers" while William studies, sharpening his skills. And the only solution for Judith to be deemed great like her brother is to run away from home and pave her own way, or be stuck at home and wait for her brother to gain more popularity with his works.
