Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Virginia Stephen and Morley College, 1905–7
- 2 Virginia Stephen and the People's Suffrage Federation, 1910
- 3 Virginia Woolf and the Women's Co-operative Guild, 1913–31
- 4 Virginia Woolf and the Rodmell Women's Institute, 1940–1
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The ‘Morley Sketch’
- Appendix 2 The ‘Cook Sketch’
- Bibliography
- Index
Appendix 1 - The ‘Morley Sketch’
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Virginia Stephen and Morley College, 1905–7
- 2 Virginia Stephen and the People's Suffrage Federation, 1910
- 3 Virginia Woolf and the Women's Co-operative Guild, 1913–31
- 4 Virginia Woolf and the Rodmell Women's Institute, 1940–1
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 The ‘Morley Sketch’
- Appendix 2 The ‘Cook Sketch’
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Transcription: ‘Report on Teaching at Morley College’, 1905, Monks House Papers, University of Sussex Special Collections at The Keep, Falmer, SxMs18/2/A/22.
Symbols used in transcription:
<word> interlinear or marginal revision
{word} cancelled word or passage
[word] questionable transcription
{[word]} questionable transcription of a cancellation
[?] illegible word
{?} illegible cancellation
July 1905
This is the season for another report upon that class of working women {which I led there} <whom I> have already {once before this} mentioned.
It was to be a class of history this time; in spite of the fact that those in authority looked rather coldly on it; history they told me, was the least popular subject in the college; at the same time they could not confute me when I asserted that it was also one of the most important. My {numbers} <class> it is true dropped instantly to half {their} <its> previous size; I had four instead of a possible eight; but then those four were regular attendants, & they came with one serious desire in common. The change then, was {by} to my liking.
I have already described those four working women; so that my remarks this time are merely {in} a development of that tentative sketch. {But} <Only> in one instance did I find that {my} I must reconsider my judgment. That Miss Williams whom I described as the ‘least interesting of my class’ ‘rather handsome & well dressed – with wits sharpened in the streets {rather} inattentive & critical’ came to the first history class, & to my surprise {was} hardly missed {one} <a Wednesday> throughout the term. One night, too, I so far cornered her as to make her reveal herself; she then told me that she was a reporter on the staff of a Religious paper – reported {?} sermons in shorthand – {&} did typewriting, & also wrote reviews of books; {A journalist in a humble way in short!} the germ of a literary lady in short! < & a curious one>.
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- Virginia WoolfAmbivalent Activist, pp. 210 - 215Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2015