Read this excerpt from a room of one's own by virginia woolf:
betrothal often took place while one or both of the parties
was in the cradle, and marriage when they were scarcely
out of the nurses' charge.' that was about the
next reference to the position of women is some two
hundred years later. 'it was still the exception for
women of the upper and middle class to choose their own
husbands, and when the husband had been assigned, he
was lord and master. . yet even so, professor trevelyan
concludes, 'neither shakespeare's women nor those of
authentic seventeenth-century memoirs seem wanting
in personality and character!
which sentence best states the idea that this excerpt to develop?