1. Additional Background Information: Victoria Age
(politic; economic; women's status; literary works)
2. Sentences analysis:
1) What is the main idea of Paragraph 1?
2) Why does the author say that in the profession of literature there are fewer experiences for women than in any of the other professions, with the exception of the stage, that are peculiar to women?
3) Paraphrase "For the road was cut".
4) How can we understand "there were very few material obstacles in my way"?
5) Paraphrase "No demand was made upon the family purse".
6) What's the implied meaning of "The cheapness of writing paper is, of course, the reason why women have succeeded as writers before they have succeeded in the other professions"?

