"If only Mrs Seton and her mother and her mother before her had learnt the great art of making money... we might have dined very tolerably up here alone off a bird and a bottle of wine; we might have looked forward without undue confidence to a pleasant and honourable lifetime spent in the shelter of one of the liberally endowed professions. We might have been exploring or writing; mooning about the venerable places of the earth; sitting contemplative on the steps of the Parthenon, or. going at ten to an office and coming home comfortably at half–past four to write a little poetry...All I can do is to offer you an opinion upon one minor point—a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write..."
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