'All writers since Chaucer have come from the middle class… have had a good, at least an expensive, education…' Where does Virginia Woolf argue this?
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Correct answer: C. The Leaning Tower
Explanation
In 'The Leaning Tower' (lecture to the Workers' Educational Association, 1940) Woolf argues that English writers have sat on a 'tower' of middle-class birth and expensive education, and that the 1930s poets felt it leaning.
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