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Since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are those of real life. But the values of women differ from the values which have been made by the other sex. Yet it's the masculine values that prevail and inevitably transferred to fiction. 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

It was the relic of the sense of chastity that dictated anonymity to women even so late as the nineteenth century. Victims of inner strife sought ineffectively to veil themselves by using the name of a man.
The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles (himself a much-talked-of man) that publicity in women is detestable.
Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them.

exactly my cup o' tea