Janet Elizabeth Case

Janet Elizabeth Case (1863–1937) was a British scholar, tutor of ancient Greek, and women's rights advocate. Born in London, she studied classics at Girton College, Cambridge from 1881 to 1885.[1] She published her own translation of The Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus in 1905,[2] and from 1925 to 1937 she wrote a weekly "Country Diaries" column for the Manchester Guardian, which was published as a collection in 1939.[3]

While working as a tutor, Case taught Greek to a young Virginia Woolf from 1902 to 1907. After this instruction ended, Case and Woolf developed a close friendship that would last until Case's death in 1937.[4] Case became involved in the women's rights movement, thanks to her friend and former Girton classmate Margaret Llewelyn Davies, who served as general secretary of the Co-operative Women's Guild from 1899 to 1921. In turn, Case encouraged Woolf to become involved in the women's rights movement, writing to her in 1910 of the "wrongness of the present state of affairs."[5] Woolf wrote Case's obituary, which was published in The Times on 22 July 1937.

References

  1. ↑ Sutherland, Gillian (2015). In Search of the New Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Britain 1870–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 62.
  2. ↑ Foster, Finley Melville Kendall (1918). English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey, Volume 22. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 8.
  3. ↑ Wainwright, Martin. “First Eleven,” The Guardian, 30 August 2008. Retrieved on 16 November 2017.
  4. ↑ Alley, Henry M. (1982). "A Rediscovered Eulogy: Virginia Woolf's 'Miss Janet Case: Classical Scholar and Teacher.'" Twentieth Century Literature. 28:3.
  5. ↑ Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, eds. (1975). The Letters of Virginia Woolf: Volume I. New York: Harcourt. p. 421.
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