... the social and material conditions required for the writing of literature. These conditions -leisure time, privacy, and financial independence- are particularly relevant to understanding the situation of women in the literary tradition because women, historically, have been uniformly deprived of those basic prerequisites. The journey through Women and Fiction is a complicated one in part, because the subject is open to various ... novelists, women's common social role seems to have been the reason. Functioning at the heart of the family, she observes, women's training inevitably include...

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