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Letters from Margaret Thomas to Virginia Woolf, 1929 - 1930

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Reference Code: GBR/0271/GCRF 9/1/34

Scope and Contents

Transcripts made by Professor Daugherty [for her own research] of two letters in the Monks House Papers, University of Sussex.
1) Letter written as Secretary of the ODTAA Society to thank Woolf for sending a presentation copy of 'A Room of One's Own' and to tell her of the effect it has had on her (position of women at Cambridge, distinctions between the men's and women's colleges etc.), 28 October 1929;
2) Letter suggesting the idea of an Anthology of Cambridge Women's Poetry, to be published by the Hogarth Press, 25 May 1930. Margaret Bullard went on to write ‘A Perch in Paradise’ (London: Hamish Hamilton 1952) a parody of Cambridge academic life.

Dates

  • Creation: 1929 - 1930

Biographical / Historical

Margaret Thomas, Later Lady Bullard, Girton 1926-1930.

Extent

1 file(s) : Paper

Language of Materials

English

Existence and Location of Originals

Monks House Papers, University of Sussex.

Related Materials

GCRF 8/4/5 Virginia Woolf: collected file

Related Materials

Margaret Thomas (compiler) , 'An Anthology of Cambridge Women's Verse' (Hogarth Press 1931)

Originator(s)

Daugherty, Beth; Thomas, Margaret

Finding aid date

2004-06-11 11:10:55+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Girton College Archive Repository

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