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be seen to influence the nature of the creative work itself (Barrett 5).

The writer is not an abstract but a real person who must make a living in this world, and therefore material conditions are important. Material conditions can be influenced by writing--the writer who can make a living has those conditions affected--and a failure to provide the necessary material conditions can prevent a writer from writing or force her to marry and commit herself to a domestic life as a way of surviving.

Woolf raised this issue again and again in her criticism, as when she discusses two woman writers

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