I definitely think B. The deeper meaning here is that women were not allowed to do great things, and if there were to be a women that wanted to be educated it was highly frowned upon.
Hey There!! The answer to this is B: To add an emotional element that evokes sympathy on the part of the reader.
The great 20th century writer, Virginia Woolf, in this famous essay explores her role as a writer and a woman exposing in many ways the difficulties that a learned woman had to face, not only in her own time, but historically, in order to be able to develop her trade or art form in a patriarchal society. The fragment aims at inspiring sympathy in the reader, regardless of the latter´s gender, in order to draw attention to the inequalities that women had, and still have to, face every day.
