Read the following excerpt from a room of one's own by virginia woolf: occasionally an individual woman is mentioned, an elizabeth, or a mary; a queen or a great lady. but by no possible means could middle-class women with nothing but brains and character at their command have taken part in any one of the great movements which, brought together, constitute the historian's view of the past. which statement best states the idea that this excerpt to develop?

a. women have been historically held back from greatness.
b. women's contributions have been erased from history.
c. women have traditionally been encouraged to write about their lives.
d. women's lives have been deliberately left out of historical record.