Feminist literary critics have shown how in the 19th century women writers began to acknowledge women as their muses and their role models...Elizabeth Barrett Browning admired the work of George Sand and Mme. de Staël, while her work, in its turn, was an inspiration to Emily Dickinson...The list could be indefinitely extended to show the almost desperate search of writing women for authoritative female predecessors.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Feminist literary critics have shown how in the 19th century women writers began to acknowledge women as their muses and their role models...Elizabeth Barrett Browning admired the work of George Sand and Mme. de Staël, while her work, in its turn, was an inspiration to Emily Dickinson...The list could be indefinitely extended to show the almost desperate search of writing women for authoritative female predecessors." in the context of "Gerda Lerner The Creation of Feminist Consciousness (1993)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.