It is the masculine values that prevail... This is an important book, the critic… — Virginia Woolf

It is the masculine values that prevail... This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing room.

A Room of One's Own · 1929
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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 4.
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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 4.