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In this essay, the author maintains that the use of "knowledge" of tradition offered by T.S. Eliot in "Tradition and the Individual Talent" differs greatly from Virginia Woolf's use of "knowledge" of tradition in "Professions for Women."

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"In "Professions for Women", Virginia Woolf demonstrates her awareness of literary history when she lists a number of women authors who preceded her own struggle to write, including Jane Austen and George Eliot. In this manner, Woolf contends that her work as a female author in a patriarchal society is made simpler by those who preceded her. However, she also contends that her work not only rests on this tradition but also extends it. Her work extends female tradition in..."

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