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<DIV>“a deprecating, silvery, kindly gentleman, who regretted in a low voice as
he waved me back that ladies are only admitted to the library if accompanied by
a Fellow of the College or furnished with a letter of introduction.”</DIV>
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<DIV>We now know that this is not correct as far as Trinity College Library is
concerned (see VWB No. 6, p.30), but, following the suffragette slashing of the
<EM>Rokeby Venus</EM> in March 1914, “At the British Museum, women could be
admitted only if they were accompanied by a man or, if unaccompanied, could
produce a letter of recommendation from a gentleman.” (<SPAN
style="COLOR: ">Bostridge, Mark (2014), <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Fateful Year: England 1914</I>, London:
Viking, imprint of Penguin Books, p.52)</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="COLOR: ">In the 1970s I met a centenarian Australian, who had
been a governess in London before and during the First World War (like VW, she
noted how terrified the servants were of the Zeppelins), and she remembered how
you couldn’t go into the National Gallery and elsewhere with an umbrella,
etc.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>“That cupboard there,—you say it holds clean table-napkins only; but what
if Sir Archibald Bodkin were concealed among them?”</DIV>
<DIV>Bodkin (1862–1957) was a lawyer and Director of Public Prosecutions
(1920–30), in which role he was particularly committed to the suppression of
what he regarded as obscene literature.</DIV>
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<DIV>Diego Velázquez’ (1599–1660) “Venus at her Mirror” (the “Rokeby Venus”) in
the National Gallery, London, was axed by the suffragette Mary Raleigh
Richardson (1882–1961) on 10 March 1914. She and Rachel Peace had
previously set fire to “The Elms” in Hampton, Surrey (unfortunate, because the
empty house was owned by the Countess of Carlisle, “an ardent, though
non-militant, campaigner for women’s rights”). Miss Peace alone appeared
at the Old Bailey, as Miss Richardson “was too ill through
hunger-striking”. “The trial was remarkable for the pandemonium which
broke out.” Anyway, it is pleasant to read that one of the demonstrators
“succeeded in hitting the gown of Mr. (later Sir) Archibald Bodkin, the
prosecuting counsel, with an over-ripe tomato”. (It was worth paying the
£9 for "The Women's Suffrage Movement in and around Richmond and Twickenham"
just for that).</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="COLOR: ">Stuart</SPAN></DIV>
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