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virginia woolf gave her speech about shakespeare’s sister in 1928, the same year in which women in the united kingdom regained the right to vote. woolf’s family had her educated at home, even though british universities began admitting women in 1878. by the time woolf began working for the times literary supplement in 1910, nellie bly had proved that women could succeed as professional journalists. despite this progress, woolf experienced so many difficulties in making her life as a writer that she had no difficulty imagining how prejudice and lack of opportunity would have stifled judith, shakespeare’s imaginary sister.

which of the following critical approaches is best represented in this passage?

psychological
historical
feminist
biographical

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .