A dramatic monologue is a long piece of writing or poetry that seeks to reveal the reader or character’s innermost thoughts and feelings. ... The dramatic monologue as a form or literary device was popularized by English Romantic poets such as Percy B. Shelley and Robert Browning.
because back then they didn't have the right to work , vote , or even do anything but take care of kids and cook for their husbands and kids.
A. It says in the passage that they declined the preposition