Question

This may be true or it may be false—who can say?—but what is true in it, so it seemed to me, reviewing the story of Shakespeare's sister as I had made it, is that any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at.

–A Room of One’s Own,
Virginia Woolf

What is the author’s perspective on the topic?

Which phrase from the passage reveals the author's perspective?

Answer 1

The author’s perspective is that a talented woman in the sixteenth century would have been unable to live or work freely and would likely have been driven to madness, suicide, or forced into a marginalized, feared existence by society.

Phrase that reveals this perspective:
"any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at."