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Virginia Woolf, in her seminal text, A Room of One's Own talked about equality, a literary career and financial freedom, thoughts which still influence feminist
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n the year 1802, amidst the roar of the ocean, a legend was born. Not of the sea, but cradled by its rhythm, Victor Hugo,
