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Marguerite's Story

The phone rings at 9:00 pm on a Tuesday in January. It's Marguerite, a first-year student in my introductory honors course on women writers, who has been working on her first paper: a discussion of the famous moments of exclusion described by Virginia Woolf in the opening chapter of A Room of One's Own. Wandering around Oxbridge, Woolf is asked to keep off the grass, barred from the library, and made aware that she should not enter the chapel--all because she is a woman, not a "fellow." Marguerite had been in the library and realized too late that she had waited until after dark to leave. Unlike Woolf, she was locked in, not locked out, but for the same reason:

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