“[L]adies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction.”

woolfPurely by coincidence, I was reading Virginia Woolf”s A Room of One’s Own during the week that the first woman became the presumptive nominee for a major political party in the U.S.  In 1928, when Woolf gave a series of lectures on “Women and Fiction,” she described the differences in … Read More