K: "Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety": Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety As Woolf 's comments imply, women who did not apologize for their literary efforts were defined as mad and monstrous: freakish because "unsexed" or freakish because sexually "fallen." If Cavendish's extraordinary intellectual ambitions made her seem like an aberration of nature, and Finch's writing caused her to be defined as a fool, an absolutely immodest, unapologetic rebel like Aphra Behn — the first really "professional" literary woman in England — was and is always considered a somewhat "shady lady," no doubt promiscuous, probably self-indulgent, and certainly "indecent.

As Woolf 's comments imply, women who did not apologize for their literary efforts were defined as mad and monstrous: freakish because "unsexed" or freakish because sexually "fallen." If Cavendish's extraordinary intellectual ambitions made her seem like an aberration of nature, and Finch's writing caused her to be defined as a fool, an absolutely immodest, unapologetic rebel like Aphra Behn — the first really "professional" literary woman in England — was and is always considered a somewhat "shady lady," no doubt promiscuous, probably self-indulgent, and certainly "indecent.

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