Read the following excerpt from a room of one's own by virginia woolf: occasionally an individual woman is mentioned, an elizabeth, or a mary; a queen or a great lady. but by no possible means could middle-class women with nothing but brains and character at their command have taken part in any one of the great movements which, brought together, constitute the historian's view of the past. which statement best states the idea that this excerpt to develop?

a. women have been historically held back from greatness.
b. women's contributions have been erased from history.
c. women have traditionally been encouraged to write about their lives.
d. women's lives have been deliberately left out of historical record.

20 pts + brainliest for a answer the structure of a written work—the way a work is built using sentences, paragraphs, chapters, or sections­—can an author develop and communicate ideas to the reader. how does the structure of paragraph 1 develop the ideas in roosevelt's first inaugural address? select each correct answer. by beginning with concrete examples and moving on to abstract ideas, the author readers understand the major points. by beginning the paragraph with references to himself and the audience, the author makes his ideas more approachable. by moving swiftly from topic to topic, the author emphasizes the importance of the nation's problems. by summing up the points that he will raise, the author creates a preview of the later paragraphs in the speech. by mixing shorter sentences among the long sentences, the author makes his ideas flow more smoothly and understandably.