Janet Case

Virginia's tutor Janet Case became her lifelong friend. In her late teens she had an array of female friends of ten to twenty years older than herself: Violet Dickinson , philanthropic Quaker, Kitty Maxse

Virginia read Aeschylus , Homer , Sophocles , and Plato , among others, with Clara Pater. In 1902, however, the Cambridge-educated Janet Case , who was a feminist as well as a classicist, took over...

She then, in 1892, began to study Greek under Janet Case , later Virginia Woolf 's tutor and friend. Another point of similarity between the two authors' early educations can be seen in Rathbone's comment...

Virginia Stephen (later VW ) offered her support to the suffrage cause in a letter to her friend Janet Case . This led to her brief volunteer work with the People's Suffrage Federation which was...

Without her name, of course, but as an old pupil, VW published in the Times an obituary, Miss Janet Case : Classical Scholar and Teacher.

Lyndal Gordon observes that biographically, the novel offers a rationale for the Woolf marriage, while it circles the unknown and unused potentialities of women in the context of their struggle for the vote. The one...