Read the excerpt below from a room of one’s own and complete the instruction that follows. but for my part, i agree with the deceased bishop, if such he was—it is unthinkable that any woman in shakespeare’s day should have had shakespeare’s genius. for genius like shakespeare’s is not born among laboring, uneducated, servile people. it was not born in england among the saxons and the britons. it is not born today among the working classes. how, then, could it have been born among women whose work began, according to professor trevelyan, almost before they were out of the nursery, who were forced to it by their parents and held to it by all the power of law and custom? yet genius of a sort must have existed among women as it must have existed among the working classes. now and again an emily brontë or a robert burns blazes out and proves its presence. but certainly it never got itself on to paper. when, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then i think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious jane austen, some emily brontë who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. make a text-to-world connection to the passage.