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['On 9 and 16 October 1920, the New Statesman printed the two letters of Virginia Woolf, written in reply to Affable Hawk\'s (Desmond MacCarthy\'s) review of Arnold Bennet\'s collection of essays entitled: Our Women: Chapters on the Sex-discord, published in the same year.\r\nBennett\'s assertion that women were inferior to men, and Affable Hawk\'s positive review of his book, provoked Woolf. Their correspondence via the New Statesman is collected under the title "The Intellectual Status of Women", published in the referenced source.\r\n"When I compare the Duchess of Newcastle with Jane Austen, the matchless Orinda and Emily Brontë, Mrs Heywood with George Eliot, Aphra Ben with Charlotte Brontë, Jane Grey with Jane Harrison, the advance in intellectual power seems to me not only sensible but immense [...]" (p. 25)\r\nSNJune12']
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