Read this excerpt from a room of one's own by virginia woolf:

[a]ny woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself, or ended her days in some lonely cottage outside the village, half witch, half wizard, feared and mocked at.

why did woolf most likely include this passage in the essay?

a. to use a historical period to the reader track her argument more easily
b. to add an emotional element that evokes sympathy on the part of the reader
c. to add a magical feeling that makes her essay more interesting and fun
d. to establish her credibility as an expert on supernatural phenomena